Not Going Away In the Summer

Colds go away in the summer. The common cold is caused by a family of viruses.

Influenza goes away in the summer. Influenza is caused by a family of viruses.

SARS-CoV-2 is a virus. Therefore COVID-19 will go away in the summer.

I hope you can see the non sequitur there.

Nonetheless, this is the way a lot of people have been and continue to think.

I hope these two chloropleths put that to rest. Here's where case rates are increasing the most:

And here's the average temperature (this is for May, for June the colors would change but the gradient would stay the same):

FWIW: I lived in New Orleans for 9 years, and Tuscaloosa for two. It's June 19th: in those cities you pretty much did not open up the windows from mid-May to mid-September. It's almost like being cooped up inside in Utah in the winter. Last I checked, the virus likes that too.