Will Coronavirus Disease 2019 Become Seasonal?

Mia Kanzawa; Hilary Spindler; Andrew Anglemyer; George W Rutherford

doi:10.1093/infdis/jiaa345

Will Coronavirus Disease 2019 Become Seasonal?

J Infect Dis. 2020 Aug 4;222(5):719-721. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa345.

Authors

Mia Kanzawa^{1

2}, Hilary Spindler¹, Andrew Anglemyer^{3

4}, George W Rutherford¹

Affiliations

¹ The Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
² The Kaiser Permanente Medical Center San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
³ The Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Otago, New Zealand.
⁴ The Department of Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA.

Abstract

This manuscript explores the question of the seasonality of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 by reviewing 4 lines of evidence related to viral viability, transmission, ecological patterns, and observed epidemiology of coronavirus disease 2019 in the Southern Hemispheres' summer and early fall.

Keywords: COVID-19; seasons; transmission.

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification
Betacoronavirus / physiology
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Coronavirus Infections / virology
Humans
Microbial Viability
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Pneumonia, Viral / virology
SARS-CoV-2
Seasons
Temperature