1000%! I co-authored a journal article (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/rmv.2241) on respiratory virus seasonality in May, in which we suggest that respiratory viruses are seasonal largely not because of crowding/humidity/vitD (they do have a role, just not main), but because of temperature shifts, down to the individua…
1000%! I co-authored a journal article (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/rmv.2241) on respiratory virus seasonality in May, in which we suggest that respiratory viruses are seasonal largely not because of crowding/humidity/vitD (they do have a role, just not main), but because of temperature shifts, down to the individual level. I’ve been trying to get anyone (especially journalists and other scientists) to talk about the idea that you can’t have a rational discussion about COVID or any other respiratory virus if you aren’t taking seasonality into account. Our vaccines were tested during the summer (not COVID season for most of the world), and we still haven’t gone through a full winter in Europe/North America with a significant portion of the population vaccinated. How do you properly test a vaccine for a efficacy against disease that isn’t prevalent (in season)??? Sadly, our leaders and scientists either seem to have the wrong ideas about what probably causes seasonality, or think that COVID isn’t yet a seasonal virus, or both. This will be a costly mistake this winter.
1000%! I co-authored a journal article (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/rmv.2241) on respiratory virus seasonality in May, in which we suggest that respiratory viruses are seasonal largely not because of crowding/humidity/vitD (they do have a role, just not main), but because of temperature shifts, down to the individual level. I’ve been trying to get anyone (especially journalists and other scientists) to talk about the idea that you can’t have a rational discussion about COVID or any other respiratory virus if you aren’t taking seasonality into account. Our vaccines were tested during the summer (not COVID season for most of the world), and we still haven’t gone through a full winter in Europe/North America with a significant portion of the population vaccinated. How do you properly test a vaccine for a efficacy against disease that isn’t prevalent (in season)??? Sadly, our leaders and scientists either seem to have the wrong ideas about what probably causes seasonality, or think that COVID isn’t yet a seasonal virus, or both. This will be a costly mistake this winter.