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Sunny weather and still trapped by COVID: Are the kids going to be okay?

April is famously the cruellest month because that is when flowers start growing in The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot’s 1922 poem of cultural decay. Likewise, as school wraps up for Canadian children, this is shaping up to be a cruel, cruel summer, as in the 1984 Bananarama song about heatwave heartache, because sunny weather is… Read More: Sunny weather and still trapped by COVID: Are the kids… »

Warm weather may have no impact on COVID-19

In every scenario modeled, they found that warm weather did not halt transmission. That was because, in the case of the common cold, a large segment of the population typically gets sick and develops immunity by spring. With SARS-CoV-2, however, enough of the population will likely remain vulnerable, allowing it to spread even if transmission… Read More: Warm weather may have no impact on COVID-19 »