COVID-19: Will Warmer Temperature and Humidity Reduce Infection Rate?

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 28 May 2020

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Today we’re going to talk about COVID-19, temperature, and humidity. Could COVID-19 get better in the summer?

Studies on COVID-19 and temperature:

Study: High temperature and high humidity could significantly reduce the transmission of COVID-19. For every increase in 1 degree Celsius and increase in 1% humidity, there’s a decrease by R (the infection rate) by .0383 and .0224.

Study: There are greater infections in the northern hemisphere versus the lower hemisphere. This may have to do with distance from the sun and how much vitamin D people are able to get.

Study: Showed an inverse relationship between humidity, temperature, and COVID-19 infections.

Certain viruses are seasonal and peak in the winter because they’re more stable in cold temperatures. During the winter months, people also tend to have higher levels of cortisol, which weakens the immune system.

During the winter months, you’re also going to get less vitamin D, which can weaken the immune system. There are even more benefits of sunlight that go beyond vitamin D and temperature, that you’re missing out on in the winter months.

If there are viruses that are peaking in the winter months, it’s important to keep your immune system strong during this time. You can also take vitamin D and do whatever you can to help counter the increase in cortisol. Sleep and long walks could help as well.

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting,
0:04.4	whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product.
0:10.5	Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7.
0:29.0	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Let's talk about COVID-19, temperature and humidity. There's been some confusion on,
0:51.0	is the COVID-19 going to get better in the summer or is it going to stay the same?
0:56.2	And I'm going to give you some relatively good news on that.
0:58.4	Actually, four studies, I'm going to put the link down below.
1:00.8	The first study showed that high temperature and high
1:03.0	humidity significantly, let me underline this one, reduces the transmission of
1:09.7	COVID-19. For every increase in 1 degree Celsius temperature, an increase in 1%
1:19.3	humidity, there's a decrease by R, which basically is the infection rate of the virus by 0383
1:30.1	and 0.24. So this is very, very consistent with the flu. This is why the flu and other viruses,
1:41.1	specifically three viruses, COVID-19, other coronaviruses, respiratory
1:48.7	sensational viruses involving the respiratory center. In fact, all of these are seasonal. They come out in the
1:56.3	winter and they go away when it gets warmer. Another study showed greater infections in the
2:02.2	northern hemisphere versus the lower hemisphere.
2:06.3	And this is a strong relationship between basically the distance from where you are to the sun
2:11.8	and the amount of vitamin D and sunlight.
2:14.0	And another study showed an inverse relationship between humidity and temperature and COVID-19 infections.
2:21.0	So there's two things you need to know.
2:22.0	You have the virus and you have the immune system.
2:25.2	Certain viruses, these right here are seasonal. They peak in the winter because they're
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