Climate change "may have played a key role" in pandemic

[Rukh O'Rorke]

www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/climate-change-may-have-played-a-key-role-in-pandemic-study-says/ar-BB1dqHD6?li=BBnb7Kz

Climate change "may have played a key role" in pandemic, study says



Human-caused climate change "may have played a key role" in the coronavirus pandemic. That's the conclusion of a new study which examined how changes in climate have transformed the forests of Southeast Asia, resulting in an explosion of bat species in the region.

oh my....another reason to get on the climate issues!

[pulmonarymd]

Climate change was always going to be a concern from a medical viewpoint. Increasing temperatures can make air pollution, smog, and ozone worse. Both the increased temperature and heat can exacerbate respiratory disease. The migration of animals and other species can lead to infectious diseases spreading to areas they never were before. And then environmental issues related to degradation and migration into unsettled areas unrelated to climate change can be problematic. It is an interesting but impossible to prove thought about coronavirus, but it makes sense. If not this illness, there will eventually be one that will be directly caused by climate change.

Malaria, Lyme disease, Nagleria, Dengue, Schistosomiasis, and a whole host of other diseases have geographic predilections. Change the climate=change the distribution of the disease.

[formerroomate99]

The pandemic happened because China spent November 2019 through late January 2020 lying to the world, telling them that nothing was going on there, not letting people from Wuhan travel throughout China but sending them all over the world. We don’t have offices in Germany monitoring for epidemics because we know that the German government would handle it and would let us know if the were having trouble. The Chinese government was perfectly capable of doing the same. They chose not to.

[pulmonarymd]

Boy, that is a simplistic explanation