Flu and cold is seasonal. There’s a bunch different theories around it from cold air lowers our defenses to vitamin d production from sun light. Sars burned out during the summer months so hopefully we see a reduction with this virus.
Thanks that makes sense, I'm still a bit confused as to the fact it's going to be summer in the northern hemisphere but winter in the southern, does that mean things will get better in Europe and North America but worse in South America, Australia etc?
Flu seasons are usually judged by what is happening in the other hemisphere. During our summer Australia had a bad flu season which corresponded to the US having a bad flu season during our winter months.
90% of the people in the world live in the northern hemisphere, and a significant chunk of the people who live in the southern hemisphere live near to the equator (i.e. they have no winter). Also, it's not about to be winter in the southern hemisphere, it's about to be fall.
