Will COVID-19 Go Away in the Summer?
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COVID-19 has the potential to ebb and flow with the seasons, but because it's a novel pandemic, that doesn't mean we're off the hook this summer.
While this episode was in production, an additional report was published in Science supporting the conclusion that too many people are susceptible to the virus for warm weather to make much of a dent: science.sciencemag.org/conten...
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Quite a few people have already decided quarantine is over on their own
Darwin is having a field day
Here in Brazil, people thought they no longer needed to isolate themselves since all the announced peaks have passed. Many even think that the virus is being inflated by the media and that the quarantine is exaggerated...
Worry about yourself
How can we take anything the news says at face value when they got busted using footage from Italy and said it was New York, and it's openly admitted that you can die of damn near anything yet if you test positive for the load-of-crap virus you're added to the official death toll?
To some extent I blame the media's lack of trustworthiness in many other ways for this.
My favorite comparison about the US's pandemic response so far: "COVID-19 is just like the Vietnam War. It got too expensive, so we just pretended it was over."
I laughed so bloody hard at this
That's rather painfully accurate.
@@akula9713 Well yes. It will 'remove' those that can't fight off the infection.
@@akula9713 You learned history wrong.USA won the war when North Vietnam signed the Paris peace accord in 1973.
@@naamadossantossilva4736 america didnt win at all they retreated it and lost
SciShow: "Will COVID-19 Go Away in the Summer?"
People in the Southern hemisphere: "No."
Yeah. Brazil is a pretty depressing example of this. (The government response is a huge factor here, so it's not an ideal example due to confounding factors.)
India says no.
@@StopChangingUsernamesUA-cam i agree seem warm and light sun dont really help if government suck to contain it, damn brazil is on equator line and may be the country with the most infected people, it is not good for africa and india if they made same mistake than brazil
what happen in brazil could give us a idea what happen in africa and india
Plenty of places in the subtropics of the US are warmer than lots of places in the southern hemisphere right now. Death rates in the Houston area have almost doubled recently now that the governor of Texas won't let us enforce standards of our choosing as we reopen. At least we're not hiding our data like Florida and Georgia.
This is going to be a rough summer.
Exactly
I'm from Argentina. Our minister of health said in the end of February that it was imposible for the virus to spread in our country because we were in summer. Boy, was he wrong. Less than a month later they declared total lockdown.
Yes and Brazil is currently exploding with new COVID-19 cases. It just surpassed Spain to become #3 worldwide behind the USA and Russia. The Southern most US states have plenty of cases and Mexico has recently seen a sharp increase.
I've been watching it spread over the whole damn world, not seeming to slow by a significant enough factor to care in the summery southern hemisphere, and all the while listening to the people around me insist that it will magically go away when summer hits us.
The most demoralizing part of this virus isn't the social isolation for me. It's that it's making me question why I ever wanted to socialize in the first place.
@@UsenameTakenWasTaken don't then. You'll get your answer pretty quickly lol.
Same for Indonesia. Throughout January and February, Indonesia didn't have a single case, and the health minister says that the reason why that is the case is... no joke... prayers. Apparently Indonesians prevented COVID-19 from spreading to the country because they prayed to God.
Well, Indonesia got its first case on 2 March, and now there are almost 20,000 cases across all provinces, so even if those prayers really worked, it seems that God has even forsaken Indonesia as well...
Most affected state here in Brazil, the Amazonas, is, as its name suggest, covered by the rainforest. It's damn warm there the whole year. Yet, the rate of newly infected people is actually speeding up every week. So, and I'm just guessing here, the temperature may not play directly a big role in the disease's rate of spread.
No, it won’t. I’m in South Africa, and it’s bloody hot.
There were outbreaks in places like Saudi Arabia ... warm weather doesn't slow it down at all. www.cbsnews.com/news/saudi-arabia-coronavirus-lockdown-reimpose-curfew-ramadan-eid-as-covid-cases-surge/
AvangionQ yep. Kinda what I’m saying.
I live in the lightest hit place in the US
the high desert which is dry cold or hot
Well, at least it's not beastly hot.
my back HURTS Governor Grisham of New Mexico noted on national TV tonight that Navajo Nation, which crosses the borders of NM, Arizona, and Utah and has altitudes ranging from 3000 feet to 10,300 feet, has the highest per capita rate of Covid-19 infection in the country. So.
I love that you point out it's a preprint.
Given recent uses of preprints as though they are confirmed, reviewed results, it's becoming aggravatingly necessary.
What is a preprint? To print something before it's been printed? That does not make any sense.
@@sussekind9717 A preprint study is one that has been submitted for peer review, but has not necessarily been published or fully reviewed by others who can reproduce the results to confirm validity of the findings.
A number of these preprints studies have been showing up on social media to justify various claims of medical efficacy with most not being familiar enough with the process to recognize that merely being available as a preprint does not mean the findings have been validated.
Tbf, peer review is kind of trash, the way it's conducted. With the constant preprints going up, it's messy, but I feel like we're actually doing science.
@@NotHPotter I know what the word means (although, bravo with your definition. Very accurate).
I just think it is a non sensical word.
Pre, means to do something in advance of the actual task.
Prewashing makes sense, because you are either doing a wash, before the initial wash, or you had your denim washed before it was sold to you and worn.
Preprint, as a word, does not make any logical sense. If something is printed, it's printed.
There is such a thing as a rough draft, 1st draft, unreleased, unedited and uncensored, but we already have words for those.
(A) more accurate and descriptive word(s) would be, initial conclusions, preliminary findings, or something to that effect.
If there is one thing I have learned from Spanish flu documentaries,it went away, most people were feeling all high and mighty and then second wave hit us hard and it was brutal
I from Fortaleza (Brazil), I wouldn't count on warmer climate :'(
Hello, from Indonesia. Everybody happy in here
@@yurisabrori everybody gangsta until someone cofs
Count on your immune system
It gets hot in Brazil in the dry season. In the eastern u.s our summers are at least 90° f with greater than 80 percent humidity for most of June july and August.
@@ryanvess6162 sounds like nice warm weather.
Dude my city is summer 24/7 I live in a the Caribbean, humidity over 70%, and the virus has spread a lot and the city is in lockdown.
Dominican Republic? 😏
he said "except when its a PANDEMIC VIRUS" (meaning brand new and 0 people have immunity)
@Windows 10 if you're Windows 10, the covid19 virus would be the least of your concerns! I mean, the May update is just around the corner 😨
IKR!
@@Mr.Anders0n_ I'm ded😂😂
Summers in India are way hotter than most other places. We are reaching the end of summer here and the graph is still rising all throughout the summer 😔. Not too hopeful unfortunately
It's coz of Congress not modi idiot
@@sleepyfella what are u talking about
reaching the end of summer? you mean winter?
@@daano465 India's hottest weather comes in May because of the monsoon.
Strangely enough the summer this time wasn't as severe either..the mildest summer I've experienced in quite a while
Off topic but thank you hank for helping me with the AP Bio test with your crash course on biology.
I'm biomedical researcher and from what I have read so far it might take quite long until we get rid of the virus. It's highly difficult to estimate how long the pandemic will last but an important factor is the mutation rate. For COVID-19, first studies show that SARS-CoV2 might have a lower mutation rate than SARS (which already has a comparatively low mutation rate). Since the virus has appeared in autumn, only a couple of mutations have been detected in samples across different countries (I once made a video about the evolution of SARS-CoV2). So instead of being vulnerable against the virus after a while again (like it is the case with influenza virus) this might be good news regarding immunity. But let's see!
nah, we don't need scientists and researchers and professionals - the most powerful man in the world said a malaria medicine works, so we've basically solved it already. pack it up people, we've basically eradicated the disease.
I am worried about the virus get mixed with a flu virus.
Forine Wait what?
@Bleed The Machines cite your sources. Everything ive read has stated the medication doesn't actually do anything, and any evidence to the contrary appears circumstantial at best.
I think the most important thing is that COVID-19 is a virus, malaria is a parasite. They are completely and totally different in every way. Thinking they have the same weakness is straight up stupid.
@Bleed The Machines I think it was a joke. I'd hope so at least.
It's already hot and humid in South Florida. The infection numbers continue to climb. Because belligerence is cool. 🙄
My state of Texas is just as stupid right now. Luckily a lot of the businesses and people where I am are still being careful.
Well, i live in GA and they can't even lie straight about the statics they put out to the public.
@@WildFyreful Of course the numbers will grow. Until you have an immunity the only direction is up. What we have to worry about is the RATE of infection going up. Remember the goal was to "flatten the curve" NOT stop everyone from getting sick/dying. That goal was to not overwhelm our hospitals, so everyone that gets sick has every ability to survive. As of now we have empty hospitals that have laid off staff in the majority of the USA.
Anti-intellectualism is the real virus across much of the world.
@@wolvenar thank you. I swear some people really want to stay locked in their home until there's a "cure" or vaccine. We live everyday in the face of death. Anytime we walk outside, hell even inside or homes, we're at risk of death. Tomorrow isn't promised and I'm tired of hiding from life.
"Life you may evade, but death you shall not."
-T.S. Elliott
Hi from the southern hemisphere! Can confirm that COVID-19 can spread during warmer months.
Do you know how many % of the tests are positive in you country? If it is 1-5% it could just are false positive tests, which rate the most tests have. So for validated tests, the rna test isn't valideted, right?
@@TiKayStyle It won't matter much, as some institutions suggest 10% of the cases are officialized.
About 0.6% of our tests were positive results. This is in NZ
@@HayatoByakurai we currently have had zero new cases multiple days in a row. I do not think there's unknown widespread transmission in NZ
Matt Carran Zero cases. Maybe that's because it is turning to summer in NZ and the spread is slowing. Wait for your second wave - it's coming in your winter. No country can stay isolated from the rest of world forever without sacrificing much of modern life.
Odds of finding a useful vaccination - quite low. No useful human vaccine has been found for any RNA virus before except for small pox (which is very different). If a serious vaccine can be developed, it's years away.
Too much fuss anyway since COVID-19 only kills around 0.05% of any population when you take into account the total number of infections, and it's often "mortality displacement" so there's not much an increase in the total number of deaths. Total deaths from all causes have actually fallen in some infected countries during the pandemic (e.g. USA and China).
You've forgotten one little thing: half of the globe is actually about to face winter. Remember: it's a global pandemic.
You forgot the tropics that only have rainy/dry seasons.
There is even more to the world that doesn't fit Northern Hemisphere seasons.
@izphuzzy Many in the northern hemisphere live in the tropics, where 4 seasons isn't a thing.
Many in the northern hemisphere live above the arctic circle.
Your northern hemisphere band with 4 seasons isn't everything North of the equator...and this video isn't region restricted.
He knows. It’s a good chunk of his audience that doesn’t.
izphuzzy that doesn’t even make sense? They said half the globe, meaning many populations have already been experiencing COVID and heat. It doesn’t matter if it’s precisely half of the population or not 🤦♀️
Half of globe but not half the population.
Guayaquil was the worst hit region in Ecuador, and it is hot and humid. Don't get you hopes up
Same with Manaus in Brazil
Compare to New York City?
@@carlossegovia3011 Europe, Northern States, China, Canada and Russia.
It seems to be spreading quite easily in Brazil right now.
that is because here in Brasil neither people nor the government gives a s*** about anything, people here are simply ignorant and refuse to follow the recommendations
And it's spreading like crazy in the Amazon rainforests, where it is warm and humid the whole year
Yes it is, but the cold season has started for the most populated areas in Brazil. Is not dramatic but we get 10⁰c nights, so for us Covid winter is starting right now, just as cases began to skyrocket. That is not to say we were safer in summer, the pandemic just happened to start during our summer.
I’m worried that this isn’t just 20 seconds long with the word, “No” being the only thing in the script.
lol you reminded me of a Medlife Crisis video about homeopathy
"No".
There were outbreaks in places like Saudi Arabia ... warm weather doesn't slow it down at all. www.cbsnews.com/news/saudi-arabia-coronavirus-lockdown-reimpose-curfew-ramadan-eid-as-covid-cases-surge/
Lol. Came here to say this.
You're answering the video's title. It is the subject that the video discusses. Would you prefer the title to start with the answer, like: This is why Summer will not likely slow the pandemic?
@@AvangionQ do all 🐪 dance in saudi arabia?
yes covid-19 will end
One thing we have plenty of here in Florida is humidity and crazy people. Connection?
Not likely, but potentially a COD.
Susse, that's for sure ! Ft. Myers, Fl.
Funny that Queensland in Australia also has plenty of both. Coinsidence? I think not.
This video was uploaded on 20th May, and it's back in early March that we already knew the virus was highly resistant to heat and humidity considering the virus is rampant in that type of climate.
And not including the fact that AC units dry the air.
You're right. Once we know something we should never say it again.
The virus has been shown to become weaker in hot and/or humid climates
What people don't seem to understand is that "weaker" does not mean "gone"
Also I think it was only shown to weaken the virus on surfaces, not person to person, which is another thing people don't seem to understand the difference of
Short answer: Yesn't!
Shorter answer: Nes
Yon't.
Mothafuckahs always speakin 𝐼𝓉𝒶𝓁𝒾𝒸𝓈
Nope
shorter answer: no
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Just look the southern hemisphere. In Peru and Ecuador, the number of infected were growing, even during the hot months (December to April). Yeah, they took quick action to prevent the spread, but neither that or the heat stopped the virus from spreading.
of course the number of infected will increase, it by definition can't decrease. The rate of spread is what's talked about.
Indeed ua-cam.com/video/Ol0bQuSd5oo/v-deo.html
Those are considered imported cases.
@SciShow no it won't be impacted, i am in Mauritius, we got it in the heart of summer and it spread the same
This is the first I have heard of the existence of Mauritius. Upon some googling it sounds like an interesting place.
@@schleybailey when this pandemic is over and everything is back to normal you can come and have a holiday, its a nice place :)
Anarchy is Order bruhhhh mauritius is amazing
I once thought the cold makes me sick and I didn’t wanna go to school so I sat in the rain for hours but it didn’t work
Let me tell you before seeing the video, where I'm right now it's 42 deg C, i don't know in freedom units, you do the conversion, but it's very hot. And it's still spreading. Although i think it's rate of spread is a little less but it still does spread.
Anmol Jesus where are you
Anmol I’m in South Africa and we get 30 deg C max
42° 🥵 Sounds brutal - anything above 27° makes me feel terrible! I'm from Greenland 🙈
42?!?!?! Are you okay?!?!?!?!
so 107 F, average for Texas, got it. it was 105 F just yesterday here.
Let’s see, it’s hitting the entire world and some places are moving into their fall season so no, it didn’t go away for their summer and won’t for the US.
Here in Brazil we got the damn thing IN THE SUMMER
How are some people moving into fall?
@@TheGrimmLegion southern hemisphere
Patrick: We should move the Earth and put it closer to the Sun!
Hey! Don't give Trump any ideas...
He's very impressionable.
It'd be easier to just move to Venus.
“Sandy, that’s not the virus, that’s just its’ crown.”
@@oriontigley5089 FOOL!
That would solve all our problems!! If we’re dead, there’s no virus!!
We got to miss the worst part of the school year: Spring and every room is hot and sweaty and only computer labs are cooled.
I’m in Miami. And Miami has the most cases by A LOT in the whole Florida and it’s always humid down here
Long time viewer, first time commenting. I just want to say thank you for making these awesome videos and setting up you expectations plainly and clearly. Everyone wants an answer during these trying times but your channel has continued to inform its audience with as many facts--backed by science--as possible. Please continue to do amazing work, we really do appreciate (and enjoy) it.
I mean it’s been hot in Australia and summer / autumn here during lockdown and it didn’t magically disappear. I think America forgets it’s not the only country on earth and there’s something called the Southern Hemisphere....
Wait a second, I thought we conquered and assimilated all the other countries during WW2? Those countries became additional states, which is why there's 51 of them? And since we're all part of the same country, shouldn't we have the same weather?
@@surelock3221 We are that country you call when you need help...in every single armed conflict or mission since WW1.
We managed some on our own since then, but you always ask for our support.
Who cares about your opinion? Georgia has now been open for 26 days
OneOfYourFrenchGirls Exactly! What I was planning to say. And it was a pretty humid and very hot summer in Victoria.... I reckon staying home was what limited our infection rate.
if i can just apologise on behalf of all Americans
Nope it's damn 42°C and I can't even go out and play with my friends ,
Yeah but the good part is
We get a long vacation other than online classes which are typically 4 hrs. a day in my room with the Aircon instead of the scorching classroom.
❤️ I hope you're having a lovely Corona crisis and that you'll have a great summer! 🥰
feel you
@@jakobraahauge7299 I wish it was a fun quarantine but it's kinda not my cup of hot chocolate, like dad's out of the city working at his office,mom's gotta go to work as well which worries me
But the worst is my birthday is ruined l
Anyways thanks for wishing me luck
Jakob.😊😊
Lord where are you? 42° sounds like actual hell
I am surprised people are following the guidelines
Considering that here in NZ we have had nearly 2 weeks with 0 new cases while we are 6 days away from winter seems decent proof that covid-19 doesn't give a hell about seasons
Will COVID-19 go away in the summer?
*Laughs in Floridian*
Dear researchers,
Here in Nigeria, humidity is almost always past 90% and we have 6000+ cases and 192 deaths
That’s very few cases considering Nigeria’s huge population. If Nigeria was located in Europe, that number would be 160,000 to 600,000. Be thankful.
two things:
1. heat and humidity doesn't seem to be helping brazil right now, and
2. immunity doesn't last forever.
just sayin'....
Even if immunity doesn't last forever, if a virus hasn’t mutated too much, the next time you are exposed to that same virus years later, it may entail a week of sniffles instead of feeling near death. Your immune system remembers a virus and it can ramp up the appropriate antibody production more quickly the second time around. It doesn’t need to try all the thousands of antibody combinations that might work first.
Breath droplets don’t travel as far in humid conditions, they bump into humidity droplets and get larger, and fall to the ground sooner. Maybe this is a factor. If so, it just means slightly closer contact is needed to transfer the virus in humid conditions. A/C may defeat this natural defense. Surely heat doesn’t matter. The human body, which this virus loves, is hotter than most ambient temperature conditions.
We don’t know about the immunity one
Brazil is in the fall.
UA-cam recommended me this after I watched the LFO "Summer Girls" video on Hanks Channel.
The algorithm worked for once!!!
In India, its almost 40 Degree Celsius but still the cases are ramping up and likely to grow with the onset of monsoon.
Early. Love SciShow! Thanks for educating us on such important matters!
I feel like whoever wrote this script forgot anything below the tropic of cancer exists.
It's a reply to those who think it will "soon go away" with summer (even where that's more than half a year away).
Why no mention of vitamin D3 ?
Recent studies have shown that almost all those with bad symptoms from covid19 had low levels of vit. D3. And almost everyone that had no to mild symptoms had high levels of vit. D3.
People living in the tropics tend to avoid the sun and darker skin requires more sun exposure to make vit. D3.
Our goal should be to increase the number of people with no symptoms and decrease the number of patients with bad symptoms and decrease the severity of symptoms.
Help! Every time I hear the word coronavirus, I hear it with Cardie B voice 😅
It’s running rampant in Brazil and India so probably not.
Are u just talking about US?..cause my part of world in northern hemisphere has its summer over and its rainy season..
You must be referring to the southern hemisphere...
Ryan Vess - not necessarily. In some tropical countries, India, for example - peak summer is April-May. The rainy season (monsoon) begins in June and things start to cool down again.
I’m willing to bet most of SciShow’s audience are Americans, and, sadly, a lot of us are really ignorant about climate outside of our own country. Places with year round heat and humidity already know that they don’t stop the spread.
@@evilsharkey8954 I blame the news's focus on East Asia, Western Europe, and the US when it comes to this whole pandemic. I havent heard a peep from South America or Africa from the American news. Even going on global news sites that are normally pretty unbiased like BBC World News doesnt have alot of news on the Southern Hemisphere and i couldnt even find any news on Thailand so I've had to resort to second hand rumors from my family there (I've given up on most major American news sources). If you live in the Anglosphere chances are you're not hearing much from Africa or South America but hear a ton about the impact of the Corona Virus on Europe, East Asia, and the US so you might assume that no news is good news and that means those countries are doing alright. It doesnt help that a large number of hot regions like Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia either arent testing or arent publishing their infection rates.
Great vid! love the channel
I appreciate your channel keep up the good work
Asking this in mid May... One of the first things I looked for in March was the progression of the virus in the southern hemisphere..
Why? Because it was summer there.
What was the conclusion? We are stuffed winter or summer.
What next? Keep a mighty close eye on Australia and New Zealand since its going to be winter for them real soon.
There ya go, the vid you should have done, this vid and the one you should do in the future. All for free.
The virus is ravaging across countries along the equatorial line. Why people are hoping for a difference in summer is beyond me. Is it because of the 3 different strains?
New Zealand seems like competent leadership and common sense have done a fine job so far.
I have zero idea what it's like to live in a country like that.
@@beLIEve77 People just want it to be over, and will lie to themselves to make themselves feel like that is more likely. The US is currently pretending that it's almost over when it's just started getting bad for the same reasons.
@@lobsterbark I guess it's the government. Lockdown is costing the economy.
@@johnchedsey1306 The problem that they face is that they must remain isolated from the rest of the world. Some countries can cope like that, most cant.
It is extremely unlikely that this virus will be eradicated, so the New Zealand approach is best described as hunker down and wait till theres a cure. One that might take a very long time to come.
This is how 40 year old moms think they sound after reading facebook for 5 minutes
Idk where anyone else is, but Summer's here where I'm at already, and I have Covid19
4:52 "Our goal" xD
When the video showed people coughing into their hands, they should have explained that that is a good way to spread germs.
Germs 🤣
@@davinderc yep... Germs.
germ
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plural noun: germs
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Something is funny about that ? 🤷♂️
Short answer : No
Long answer : Nope
COVID-19: Nah, I'm going to stay.
I'm in the Philippines and the number of infected is increasing everyday. I am actually in isolation right now
Could you make a video on the connections being made with Covid-19 severity and low vitamin D concentrations?
Razorback73 stop spreading disinformation
0:52qhats the third woman doing????......😂
She's coughing into a grant 🥕and it's very normal and healthy.
Karaoke 🎤
Coughing incorrectly, just like the rest of them lmao
(should be coughing into their elbow)
@@TheDoh007 nah. She was sucking an invisible...
@@ivyvetniss3148 ice cream, yes. Now please sir sit down.
That virus saddle though, haha
Short answer: no
Long answer: of course not.
Answer is no
I'm amazed at the number of people who respond to uncertainty by declaring themselves omniscient.
Jeff Davis, I’m more surprised by the number of people who believe them!
That's the reason religion exists
One of my biggest worries (other than actually having those around me die) is that I won’t be able to go back to my physical university... I’ve been watching for updates on whether fall 2020 will happen or not, but considering it is one of the biggest universities in the us, I bet things will be far from normal...
Things will never be "normal" again... If there is that mindset then we have learned nothing
Singapore is a bit special: yes the humidity is huge outside. But there's air conditioning in all buildings (and you get fog on your glasses everytime you go outside). It seems that the main transmission mode is being inside a building and spending time with someone infected. So Singapore is quite susceptible to the virus as people spend most of their time inside. AC reduces heat but also humidity. That's perfect for the virus!
High heat and humidity, people inside with A/C? Does that not sound like summer in Florida, The Carolina's, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona? Why not throw in California, just for the A/C? Maybe the Americans should all head to Alaska!
@@qualicumwilson5168 Singapour is right on the equator...
@@cmuller1441 Singapore, today, has similiar climatic temperatures and humidity as the southern states do in the summer months. Whatever the Covid transmission rates are, in Singapore recently, will likely be duplicated, in the southern states, this summer And for the same reasons. Where did you every get the idea that I did not know Singapore was not very near the Equator? I have traveled there.
@@qualicumwilson5168 There's just a tiny difference: a hot humid summer day in the south is an average day there... If you don't see the difference then maybe you just visited the airport during a stop between 2 flights.
Just a little comparison:
weather-averages.co.uk/compare-climate/miami%2C-fl%2C-usa/singapore%2C-singapore
@@cmuller1441 I do not mind being quoted, as long as l am quoted. l said SUMMER only, and by info you helpfully provided the three summer months are HOTTER in the US south than Singapore. And no, l am not an airport hopper, between Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand l was there for 3 months on one of my world excursions. Less time on another but l had already seen many things on my bucket lists. BTW thanks for proving me right, l like that.
That's just giving the Virus a vacation
That user name.🤣
just wait till November rolls around.... hopefully some kind of vaccine is out by then, at the latest, December.
Cough meds = bringing drugs to the party
Haha yes ua-cam.com/video/Ol0bQuSd5oo/v-deo.html
They really should of had the virus in the thumbnail with a Corona 🤣
Even with constrictions easing and people getting rid of their not-at-all-flattering Corona "cuts" Hank will still have a special place in my heart reserved cuteness, regardless his stance on how to pronounce words like stance and vase! Thank you Hank - you've been a great help in this whole Corona ordeal and a great mood lifter! ❤️ Pretty awesome work - our own UA-cam-Fauci! 👍
I'm in El Paso TX and it's been in the 90s since April. Our covid count has spread the most during April and May. We have over 2,000 cases now.
"It will go away and disappear, like a miracle"
@@illumiNOTme326 "now the evidence is coming in all over the country in the world" References?
@@mikedelhoo I'm not wasting my time trying to convince you or anybody else. You guys read my statement you can look for information on your own if you're serious about it.
@@mikedelhoo Don't bother with morons like him. All they do is spread false information around without any concrete evidence.
@@illumiNOTme326 >insults detractors
>obstinately saying he doesn't need eveidence
>acts like he knows everything
Yep, that's a trump supporter.
Like for the "unfaithful boyfriend" meme couple in winter clothing!
I thought it was them! 1:17
thank you for explaining this clearly and without cheap scare tactics
Since this corona outbreak started my main problem is my increasing number of panic attacks. I'm not afraid of this virus, at least not consciously, but I think I am in the back of my head. Everyone is scared and this in turn seems to be make my body decide it wants to be scared too. The only thing my doctor has done is prescribe me a tranquilizer (oxazepam), but it's illegal for me to drive a vehicle when under the influence of that. And of course, my job requires me to drive a vehicle. Pfff these are rough times for me, but for a different reason than most...
same
@@cinnamoncrunch8765 It eats at you in the back of your head. Everywhere I look there's fearmongering. Every time I go on YT there's a big COVID-19 banner. When I go to work people are wearing face masks. When I turn on the TV there's people describing how many are infected, how many are dead, and those horrible images of people in the ICU with those tubes stuffed down their throats. It doesn't help that my own mother suffers heavily from COPD and this virus is fatal for her. I think in the back of my back head the anxiety does build up.
Spoiler alert: nope
So in a nutshell : we aren't sure
We are sure the quality of your immune system does matter. This is proof our bodies are fighting it off and fighting it quickly prior to developing memory T cells thus becoming immune. They are lying when saying people are not immune. If you develop antigens and not even know it... thats immune. Because being immune is a matter of the tiny buts moving around in your body, not a magical force field changing to some perfect color.
More sickness is reported this flu season than past years because of the attention being brought. So the reported cases are more reliable, not the same reliablity.
If you ignore the false reports of covid 19 due to proxy. i.e. someone dies from influenza and there un hospitalized and relatively fine spouse is tested and found to have covid thus the influenza death is marked as covid 19 death. Those reports tho are very rare and again makes the reporting better this year than past years.
Crossing "holiday to Iceland" off my bucket list right now!🤣🤣
How can a global pandemic be seasonal? When it's summer in the UK it's winter in Australia!
i like how level headed sci show is, the perfect political middle ground
Nothing political about this
Lolololololololol
Havent watched yet, but guess what? NO! It aint going anywhere. News flash for people not in healthcare.
Once people come back out of their holes, it should ramp back up on spreading again.
Speaking of the Pandemic I’m going to ride it out enjoying the humid subtropical weather of the Greater Houston Area on the patio sipping Cabernet Sauvignon and being appreciative that I do not live in areas of the world higher in elevation and/or latitude. Mild winters and hot summers are my schtick. While staying the hell away from people not in the same household as me. Oh and the occasional thunderstorm bringing rain being relaxing to fall asleep to.
And Americans need to remember that even if it becomes seasonal, that still means it'll be in other places in the world and can still continue to spread. Seasons are different in different parts of the world.
"We don't know if the heat will kill it"
Hank, Trump said the heat will kill it, so we know it won't. Trump has yet to be right about anything up to now.
I think he’s right about one thing, but we won’t know for a while. When this is over, and the dust has settled, the virus will probably have a lower death rate than what we’re seeing because of all the people with symptoms who aren’t getting tested. Scientists said that before he did, but they didn’t call it a hunch.
Muscle Hank .. we miss you .. but guess we are to early.. xD
Not matter what we have to have our windows opened to survive summer. Not everyone owns a AC unit.
I'm having trouble finding where you got the 5% of people infected data from your sources. Could you please tell me where that part came from?
Damn I'm early lol
Why make video when no one has answer to it. Tired of these unconclusive videos on covid19.
Unfortunately because certain people keep making absolute claims without the scientific evidence to back it
Thank you Hank!
Manaus is the most affected city in Brazil and it is in the middle of a forest and rain and on the planet's equator.
Holy Shmoly Im first to comment lol
It’s good to live in hot 🥵 country.. here it’s more than 45c ..I’m waiting for August to reach 50c
1:18 That's the couple from the meme!
I never understood how lower humidity was better for these viruses. Thank you!
I personally know of someone who works at a nursing home and just tested positive for the second time. The first time was like 6 weeks ago.
1:15 that's the couple from the distracted boyfriend meme
Those little viruses with the cowboy hats were adorable
I think the biggest hit to the near-term optimism around Summer coming up is that we have two hemispheres.
it is spreading plenty in Singapore but mostly in cramped dormitories housing migrant workers. Not exactly a good environment to test humidity as a benefit exclusively, one of many factors.
My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape.
Here in Indonesia, Tropical island. The cases still spiking up. So I debunk that.
It wasn't started through community spread.
It's only summer in the northern hemisphere. It's winter here in South Africa.
Thato Mogale yeah, but it gets hot during the day lol. In the morning it’s damn cold though