The hopes of some, including people like me, that COVID-19 would be like the common cold coronavirus, or the flu, in warm weather, have been dashed, as the hottest of hotspots are Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, Florida, and southern California.
That said, there may be an inverse to the old cold-and-flu season. Friends literally "chilling out" together in air conditioned environments may be a problem. I'm old enough to remember the big Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Philly. Air conditioning cooling tower contamination the culprit. Skeptics pointing to places like Houston claim people are out and about more now than two months ago. But, when they come back in? It's to almost always on AC. Or they're in AC at restaurants running at 75 percent capacity. (Or that WERE at 75 percent.) Put all those bodies in Helltown or Metromess restaurants in summer, and the AC is running all the time. And somebody who is asymptomatically positive is spreading it. And it at least as the possibility of getting into AC units.
And, that would explain why it's hitting younger people. (Texas is not alone on this.) Arizona, nearly 60 percent of cases are under 45 years old. In California, 60 percent under age 50. Median age of 34 in Florida in the last five weeks.
In the last week, 36 states showed COVID case increases. Florida approached New York's worst rates from the spring. Gov. Ron DeSantis continued to be a Trump Toady, mouthing his lies that it was all because "more testing = more cases." The CDC expects things to get worse before they get better, and says that actual case numbers may be even higher.
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