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Singapore is having 30ºC days, yet the epidemic is progressing and the city is already bracing for the worse...

kulahan 7y ago
"warm weather may have an effect on transmission" and "a warm city is dealing with infections" are not mutually exclusive statements. And for the record, as of a little over a week ago, there were only a dozen cases in Singapore according to the WHO. Even if they were mutually exclusive, Singapore isn't exactly the best example. https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200202-sitrep-13-ncov-v3.pdf https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...
- nosborn 7y ago
  As of yesterday it’s 47 cases in Singapore. https://www.moh.gov.sg/2019-ncov-wuhan https://www.moh.gov.sg/2019-ncov-wuhan
  - droithomme 7y ago
    Hm, increasing 47/12 in 7 days is the same as doubling every 3.55 days.
    - hatenberg 7y ago
      Some involve evacuated individuals from Wuhan so its actually a slower growth rate
  - hunvreus 7y ago
    22 of these were traveling straight from Wuhan.
catalogia 7y ago
Singapore also has a lot of air conditioning. Perhaps the transmission is occurring primarily indoors, away from the 30ºC heat.
- sitkack 7y ago
  And circulated through the building via blowers.
- nutjob2 7y ago
  Exactly. The comparison with Indonesia is interesting, which has a similar climate, but isn't as rich or developed as Singapore. Air conditioning is actually very conducive to colds and the like. When you go from outside to inside you're usually sweaty and the air conditioning tends to make you too cold until you dry out. I've caught way more sniffles in the tropics than in the freezing climates.
  - tim333 7y ago
    Anecdotally, I flew from Bali to Singapore today and there seemed to be a lot more sniffles and coughing in Singapore. In Bali the architecture is very open with lots of fresh air, scooters being popular for transport whereas in Singapore they tend more to sitting together in air conditioned boxes of various types (buildings, busses etc).
- et-al 7y ago
  Air-conditioning also removes humidity from the air. On a tangent, I'd love to see a graph of illnesses during summer before / after the widespread adoption of AC.
  - mrfusion 7y ago
    Someone could do a study of schools with broken ACs. That might be an easy way to study it.
    - robjan 7y ago
      I don't think a school would operate with broken AC
      - inferiorhuman 7y ago
aivosha 7y ago
maybe it could have been much worse if it was colder.

"warm weather may have an effect on transmission" and "a warm city is dealing with infections" are not mutually exclusive statements. And for the record, as of a little over a week ago, there were only a dozen cases in Singapore according to the WHO. Even if they were mutually exclusive, Singapore isn't exactly the best example. https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200202-sitrep-13-ncov-v3.pdf https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...

nosborn 7y ago
As of yesterday it’s 47 cases in Singapore. https://www.moh.gov.sg/2019-ncov-wuhan https://www.moh.gov.sg/2019-ncov-wuhan
- droithomme 7y ago
  Hm, increasing 47/12 in 7 days is the same as doubling every 3.55 days.
  - hatenberg 7y ago
    Some involve evacuated individuals from Wuhan so its actually a slower growth rate
- hunvreus 7y ago
  22 of these were traveling straight from Wuhan.

catalogia 7y ago

Singapore also has a lot of air conditioning. Perhaps the transmission is occurring primarily indoors, away from the 30ºC heat.

sitkack 7y ago
And circulated through the building via blowers.
nutjob2 7y ago
Exactly. The comparison with Indonesia is interesting, which has a similar climate, but isn't as rich or developed as Singapore. Air conditioning is actually very conducive to colds and the like. When you go from outside to inside you're usually sweaty and the air conditioning tends to make you too cold until you dry out. I've caught way more sniffles in the tropics than in the freezing climates.
- tim333 7y ago
  Anecdotally, I flew from Bali to Singapore today and there seemed to be a lot more sniffles and coughing in Singapore. In Bali the architecture is very open with lots of fresh air, scooters being popular for transport whereas in Singapore they tend more to sitting together in air conditioned boxes of various types (buildings, busses etc).
et-al 7y ago
Air-conditioning also removes humidity from the air. On a tangent, I'd love to see a graph of illnesses during summer before / after the widespread adoption of AC.
- mrfusion 7y ago
  Someone could do a study of schools with broken ACs. That might be an easy way to study it.
  - robjan 7y ago
    I don't think a school would operate with broken AC
    - inferiorhuman 7y ago

aivosha 7y ago

maybe it could have been much worse if it was colder.