Seasonality Could Likely Flatten Exponential Growth Rate of Coronavirus in Coming Weeks If Not Days
There is a lot of gloom and doom these days, and that for good reason; we live in a fallen world and the bible has foretold of a time of great upheaval coming on the earth. Besides this, we only need to look at the history and we see the millions upon millions that have died from plagues, wars, poverty and crime and have to wonder, why are we so special to escape these?
But there is also a reason for hope and a direction to turn in both the good times and the bad; "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." -W.E.
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One of the biggest problems in much of the analysis is the assumption that viral infections are open-endedly exponential. But significant data refutes this.
The Gateway Pundit reported earlier today on the declining mortality rate as warmer weather moves in.
There is much research that has confirmed the seasonality of viral infections.
Via Science Digest:
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Seasonality is a long-recognized attribute
of many viral infections of humans, but the mechanisms underlying
seasonality, particularly for person-to-person communicable diseases,
remain poorly understood.
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Specific research in China concluded that major factors include temperature and humidity:
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Abstract. This paper investigates how air
temperature and humidity influence the transmission of COVID-19. After
estimating the serial interval of COVID-19 from 105 pairs of the virus
carrier and the infected, we calculate the daily effective reproductive
number, R, for each of all 100 Chinese cities with more than 40 cases.
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This means that the exponentiality of a viral pandemic is often mitigated by seasonality.
The China curve was exponential, then linear, then flattened. There were 3200 deaths in a country of 1.5 BILLION.
In the US that would extrapolate to about 700 deaths total. This season there have been an estimated 23,000 deaths from the seasonal flu according to the CDC.
There is no basis for the claim that corona will be more deadly than the flu.
Our current situation is that foot race between exponentiality and
seasonality. Fortunately, our curve started later, magnifying
seasonality. The primary indicator of the beginning of the end will be
when the number of daily deaths declines. That will be the beginning of
the flattening of the curve, signalling that the number of infections
is about to peak.
If we are not careful, we will do hundreds of billions of dollars of economic damage unnecessarily.
Please keep informed and distribute accurate information to those you know.
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