How does the weather affect Corona - is Donald Trump right with his thesis?

How does the weather affect the corona virus? If you believe Donald Trump, the Covid 19 outbreak will be history in April. Is the US President Right?

• The corona virus * continues to spread.
• In the USA, however, there is no fear of a pandemic - despite the known risk of infection *.
• Rather, the virus is seen as a “trick” by the Democrats, as Donald Trump said.

Update from March 01, 2020: If you believe Donald Trump, the new corona virus will soon disappear . Specifically, the Covid 19 outbreak should already be contained in April - at least the US President believes. The then rising temperatures would finally kill the viruses. Is Trump right with this statement? How does the weather affect the corona virus ?

In fact, the spread of viruses is related to weather conditions, as virologist Thomas Pietschmann explains to Deutsche Welle: “ Viruses are more stable at low temperatures . Similar to foods that have the longest shelf life in the refrigerator. ”Conversely, this means that the warmer it gets, the more difficult the conditions for many viruses.

Corona virus: Rising temperatures in spring - it becomes uncomfortable for Corona

The hope of some virologists is that the coronavirus behaves similarly to influenza, i.e. the classic flu. However, this could “strictly speaking and honestly not yet be said because we do not yet know the virus,” as the expert admits.

However, what makes you breathe a sigh of relief in this regard is the fact that "the coronavirus is surrounded by a lipid layer, ie a layer of fat", explains Pietschmann. This is not particularly heat-resistant. Therefore , the virus can actually break when the temperature rises . The survival chances of SARS-CoV-2 would decrease. Trump's statements therefore have a true core - even if the exact behavior of the novel virus cannot yet be clearly predicted.

Coronavirus: US President Donald Trump with a strange thesis - embarrassing error in Tweet

First announcement from February 29, 2020: Washington - The novel corona virus is currently occupying national and international politics. Lung disease is also an issue in the White House in Washington. In this regard, US President Donald Trump not only downplayed the risk of the virus, but also made wild accusations against the Democrats . They would abuse the disease as a "trick".

Coronavirus / USA: Trump sure: No country "better prepared"

Trump's government has warned in the recent past of scaremongering and has repeatedly stressed that the virus would have completely disappeared in April. Because then there would be the heat, which would kill the viruses and finally curb the Covid 19 outbreak. There is no need to worry. No country is "better prepared" than the United States .

At the same time, Trump canceled a meeting with Austria's Prime Minister Sebastian Kurz. A planned appointment was "postponed by the White House due to the general coronavirus situation", announced the Federal Chancellery in Vienna on Saturday.

Coronavirus: Trump with a bizarre conjecture: "This is your latest trick"

Trump accuses the Democrats of the fact that the corona virus would occupy the US population. They would use the new Sars-CoV-2 virus as a “trick” to harm Trump and his government, as reported by bild.de. Chuck Schumer, leader of the Democrats in the US Senate, recently warned of a serious outbreak of the disease. This alone was already seen by the Republican-affiliated broadcaster Fox News as a targeted affront to Trump and the US government.

At a rally in South Carolina, Trump said, "The Democrats are politicizing the corona virus." And after his political opponents recently failed with the impeachment process, they would now try the corona virus: "This is their latest trick."

Coronavirus / USA: Trump fails on Twitter as he rages against the media

Trump, however, does not seem to really want to deal with the new disease. This is also made clear by one of his tweets. With a view to the corona virus and the consequences for the economy, Trump said that US TV stations would specifically instigate panic to make the disease "as bad as possible". Curiously, he incorrectly titled the disease as "Caronavirus."

Low Ratings Fake News MSDNC (Comcast) & @CNN are doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus look as bad as possible, including panicking markets, if possible. Likewise their incompetent Do Nothing Democrat comrades are all talk, no action. USA in great shape! @CDCgov .....

There are currently approximately 60 cases of infection in the United States, one of which was fatal. Most of them are related to the cruise ship Diamond Princess, which was quarantined for 14 days. However, experts suspect that a Covid 19 outbreak in the US is also imminent.

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