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Have you seen infection/death charts? It peaks in winter and at its minimum in summer.
by coolspot 5y ago
Have you seen infection/death charts? It peaks in winter and at its minimum in summer.
- unmole 5y agoHave you seen the charts for India?
- selectodude 5y agoHave you seen the charts for literally the rest of the world? You're picking an outlier as proof that its not seasonal. Others may say it's the exception that proves the rule.
- unmole 5y ago> Have you seen the charts for literally the rest of the world? I just did. There are no discernable spikes coinciding with cold weather for India, Brazil, the UK or Russia.
- selectodude 5y agoI decided to check Brazil really quickly and there's a very steep drop off once summer hit. I don't even need to bother with the UK.
- unmole 5y agoThe steep drop off starts of in July which in Brazil is winter.
- Izkata 5y agoMost of Brazil is pretty temperate year-round, so they don't really have a very sharp flu season, but what they do have typically peaks around June, which fits with when the covid drop started. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flu_season#Timing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flu_season#Timing -> https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/165/12/1434/125289 https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/165/12/1434/125289 > In the Fourier analysis, the seasonality of influenza in Brazil was characterized by a semiannual pattern, peaking in the winter month of June (amplitude = 27 percent), with a second, smaller peak during the summer (January; amplitude = 13 percent; figure 2).