Study finds warm weather can't prevent the virus
Temperature has no
impact on the virus, study finds.
A study by the University
of Toronto studied all 144 geopolitical areas worldwide in which 10 or more
cases of coronavirus were documented by March 20.
On Thursday, the study
has been published in the Canadian medical association journal, and found that
there is almost no links between the spread of the pandemic and the
temperature, yet documented a strong association with reduced spread of the
virus and restrictions on mass gatherings, school closures and social
distancing.
Researches noticed a
weak association with humidity and diminished speared, but said public health
restriction are far and away the most effective means of combating the pandemic
and reduce its spread.
“In our study, only
public health interventions were consistently associated with reduced epidemic
growth, and the greater the number of co-occurring public health interventions,
the larger the reduction in growth,” the researchers wrote.
University of Toronto
and the co-author of the study, epidemiologist Professor Dionne Gesink said in
the release “summer is not going to make this go away, its important people
know that. Moreover, the more public health interventions an area had in place,
the bigger the impact on slowing the epidemic growth”.
0 Comments