Trump Falsely Tells People that Warm Weather Can Defeat the Coronavirus
Just to be clear: there is zero reason to believe that the coronavirus will weaken in warmer weather—and trying to make people believe there is could cost uncountable lives. “It would be reckless to assume that things will quiet down in spring and summer,” said Dr. Peter Hotez,dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Texas. “We don’t really understand the basis of seasonality, and of course we know we absolutely nothing about…