COVID-19 Spread Inhibited in Warm Weather — Will Coronavirus Go Away in the Summer?

Jesse Harris
3 min readApr 7, 2020
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Back in early March Trump speculated that “The virus that we’re talking about … a lot of people think that goes away in April, with the heat”. While overly optimistic, this prediction may turn out to be partly right. We now have some early research showing that COVID-19 may be less contagious in warmer weather.

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Jesse Harris

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