Well it could be both. Warmer temps mean people go outside more, spend less time indoors touching everything and coughing all over each other, too. Even if the virus can still circulate in warmer temps doesn’t mean it’s doing so at a significant pace, it may still be a bit hindered. But hoping it will disappear is most likely false hope.
Yeah I agree I don’t think it will die off, it will definitely pick back up by fall and by then we’d really need a vaccine. We’re likely to have two preventative vaccines for flu seasons to come, which is wild. I just am not so sure it will be ready and mass produced. We just went through a shortage in the pharmacy for the senior flu shot, it was backordered for months even though there was high demand...hundreds of thousands of seniors had to get the regular flu shot, which put them at risk this year.
I’m deeply concerned about next season, what’s happening now and the rate at which it’s spreading is concerning...but come fall if there’s not a suitable vaccine, very large numbers of elderly will be at risk. I hope the more virulent strain can be contained to China and that the mild strain is the one we are seeing globally. If not, we should prepare for the worst come next fall. There will be vaccine constraints, just hope it doesn’t lead to panic.
To put it in perspective, we just placed our flu shot orders. GSK and other companies are already producing them for the 2020-21 season, and the strains were already decided on.
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