President Trump on Friday repeated the theory that the novel coronavirus will die out as temperatures rise in the spring, but scientists insist it\u2019s just too soon to say for sure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Infectious disease experts studying the virus say it may have a seasonal variation, or it may not. Several tell CNN it\u2019s too early to tell, and nobody knows enough about the novel coronavirus to make assessments about its behavior. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a theory that in April, when it gets warm, historically, that has been able to kill the virus. So, we don\u2019t know yet. We\u2019re not sure yet. But that\u2019s around the corner, so that will be a great thing in China and other places,\u201d Trump said at a Border Patrol event at the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield told CNN<\/a> in an interview, which aired Thursday, that the coronavirus may or may not be around past this year and it may or may not follow a seasonal variation \u2014 insisting only time will tell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “We don’t know a lot about this virus,” he said. “This virus is probably with us beyond this season, beyond this year, and I think eventually the virus will find a foothold and we will get community-based transmission.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump also estimated that there were \u201caround 12\u201d confirmed cases of novel coronavirus in the US. As of Friday, 15 individuals tested by the CDC tested positive for the coronavirus. President Trump on Friday repeated the theory that the novel coronavirus will die out as temperatures rise in the spring, but scientists insist it\u2019s just too soon to say for sure. Infectious disease experts studying the virus say it may have a seasonal variation, or it may not. Several tell CNN it\u2019s too early to tell, and nobody knows enough… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3916,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions\/3916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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