Scientists Thought (and Trump Insisted) Summer Heat Would Slow COVID-19. It Hasn't. Why?

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Scientists Thought (and Trump Insisted) Summer Heat Would Slow COVID-19. It Hasn't. Why?
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Why the Summer Heat Isn't Slowing COVID-19

, a Finnish geographer. They used a model that looks at ecological niches, or the suitability of a habitat, to hypothesize about where the virus might spread. “The pattern of spread, far from being random, was tightly associated with the climate conditions of the temperate and arid zones during the winter,” the authors wrote.

, a medical geographer at the University of Florida, this is how science is supposed to work. “In the first months of the pandemic, scientists rushed forward with what they had,” she tells me. “You put out an idea, and others build on it or reject it. It’s not supposed to be the end of the story.” And the more desperate the situation becomes, the more the attacks escalate. This week White House economic adviser Peter Navarroit “an outright and full-blown anti-science disinformation campaign coming out of the White House.”

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