Results from five early-stage studies from a varied group of researchers suggest that the spread of COVID-19 may slow down with higher average temperatures and humid conditions in countries approaching summers, for example, India.
Epidemiologists, however, warn that making a causal connection between a disease’s progression and temperature is fraught because it does not account for non-climatic factors such as human behaviour, the capabilities of different health systems and variable government/administrative response. They point out that COVID-19 is currently transmitting widely across the world, in widely varying local climates.
All five studies that have come out between March 10