Lockdown restrictions are easing in England, but with a second wave ‘rolling’ across Europe and winter on the horizon, Sophie Gallagher asks if the worst is yet to come
Micheal Head, senior research fellow in global health at the University of Southampton, agrees that cases elsewhere in the world suggest the winter won’t make things worse just because it is cold. “The increasing numbers of cases across hotter countries in the tropics suggest that sunshine and humidity are probably not a big factor in terms of the transmission.”
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