The new coronavirus is likely here to stay for a longer time to downplay the seasonal flu! Epidemiologists and other experts think COVID-19 will probably become a permanent part of the human respiratory-virus repertoire.
If their conclusions are borne out, the sweltering summer may offer a lull in new instances throughout the densely populated temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Coronavirus expected to resurge in autumn
Even so, numerous of the scientists predicted that the disease would resurge in autumn when cooler temperatures and low humidity again favor survival and transmission of the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus accountable for the illness.
The research suggests that COVID-19 could take its place in seasonal epidemics that vary from malaria, measles, and meningitis to tuberculosis and whooping cough.
The attempt to link the ailment to seasonal climate styles may help public health officials anticipate how to counter outbreaks, the United States-primarily based scientists said.
"We should prepare for annual or sporadic outbreaks every few years," said Stephen Kissler, a biomathematician at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He was the lead scientist on a team that stimulated scenarios of how the epidemic might spread over the next five years.
These studies depend on information gathered in the course of the epidemic's first six weeks or so. They are initial and haven't but been peer-reviewed.
Too early to conclude?
Health specialists at the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said concluding seasonal behavior of new coronavirus is too early. While many coronaviruses such as the ones that cause flu are seasonal, health workers say there isn't enough proof to conclude that Covid-19 will leave this summer season.
"We don't know with the Covid-19 virus how it will behave in the warmer weather," Andy Pekosz, a microbiologist at the Johns Hopkins University, told The Wall Street Journal. Pekosz, who is not involved in the study, added that preparing to deal with coronavirus in the summer months won't take a break.
Many diseases follow the seasons. Influenza outbreaks, for example, arise each winter. On the other hand, chickenpox peaks typically in the spring. Polio traditionally becomes a virulent disease during the summer season. No one is precisely sure why. However, scientists claim a new virus might take years before contagion settles into a predictable pattern.
Micaela Martinez, the infectious disease ecologist of Columbia University's Mailman School, told WSJ one big pandemic wave would happen first before settling in.
"Even if we get a seasonal decline [this summer] in the transmission rate, it could get swamped because there are so many susceptible people," she explained.
Why novel coronavirus is much worse than seasonal flu
Experts claim the few options for human beings to fight back is social distancing to mitigate the spread and decrease the overcrowding of hospitals, which can have catastrophic effects.
According to researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization and National Center for Biotechnology Information, a person with COVID-19 will, on average, infect at least two other people. For the seasonal flu, it's at least one person.
Another first difference is the incubation time, which is the time from first exposure to early signs and symptoms.
For the seasonal flu, the incubation time is one to four days, with most humans showing symptoms in about days. For people infected with COVID-19, the virus can remain in a person's body for up to 14 days before they experience any signs and symptoms.
Researchers say five days have been proven to be the median, which leaves people at risk to head in public without knowing they are infected.
The next two stats are the key. The first: the rate of how many humans are hospitalized. The second stat: the fatality rate for showed cases.
The recent CDC numbers display the hospitalization rate is 20.7 percent for humans infected with COVID-19 as compared to only 2 percent for the flu.
According to the CDC, 1 to 3.4 percent of people infected with the new coronavirus die. That's as compared to 0.1 percent or much less for someone with the flu.
This isn't intended to downplay the flu, which kills heaps of humans every year in the United States but designed more to cut through the noise about the severe dangers.
COVID-19, the respiratory sickness resulting from the brand-new virus, stands for coronavirus ailment 2019. The disease first appeared in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, but spread around the world in early 2020, causing the World Health Organization to declare a pandemic in March.
