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- Different diseases have different patterns. Some peak in early or late winter, others in spring, summer, or fall. Some diseases have different seasonal peaks depending on latitude. And many have no seasonal cycle at all. So no one knows whether SARS-CoV-2 will change its behavior come spring.
Mar 13, 2020 · Even for well-known seasonal diseases, it's not clear why they wax and wane during the calendar year. "It's an absolute swine of a field," says Andrew Loudon, a chronobiologist at the University of Manchester. Investigating a hypothesis over several seasons can take 2 or 3 years.
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Nov 8, 2018 · Here we explore the concept of an epidemic calendar, which is the idea that seasonality is a unifying feature of epidemic-prone diseases and, in the absence of control measures, the local calendar can be marked by epidemics (Fig 1).
- Micaela Elvira Martinez
- 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007327
- 2018
- PLoS Pathog. 2018 Nov; 14(11): e1007327.
Jul 14, 2020 · A race is on to figure out whether COVID-19 will wax and wane with the seasons. Atmospheric and hydrologic models produced by NASA and other institutions may be key to that research.
Mar 20, 2020 · Many infectious diseases wax and wane with the changing months. Some, like flu, spike when the weather turns cold, while others, like cholera, thrive during warm, rainy summers. Whether such...
2020. TLDR. A model is developed that tries to explain and describe the temperature and relative humidity sensitivity of respiratory droplets and their possible connection in determining viral outbreaks, and determines the droplet evaporation time that determines the infection rate constant. Expand.
Sep 6, 2020 · Both indoor and outdoor factors influence how viruses wax and wane with the seasons. Every year, influenza sickens millions of people in the U.S. In particularly bad years, flu surges overwhelm...
Diseases wax and wane in their population frequency. The underlying reasons are often difficult to detect and may remain a mystery. The principles behind the investigation of clusters, outbreaks, epidemics, and inequalities in both of communicable and non-communicable diseases, are similar.
