Looking out of the window today you would be forgiven for thinking that the British summer isn't that much different to a British winter but the experts are predicting that a second wave of Covid-19 is coming to the Northern Hemisphere and it will probably be in Autumn and winter which scuppers our plans for a pre-Christmas trip to Austria and Germany.
A medical person from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine this morning explained gloomily that it will hit worse due to the other winter bugs, which will be circulating alongside Coronavirus and viruses survive outside the body better when it is cold and due to less UV light, which inactivates the virus.
We also gather indoors with closed windows more once the weather turns colder but their is a small hope that viruses can stop each other from gaining a foothold it the body due to the immune response to one infection preventing the next one from getting in which is why the UK is trying to immunise a record number of people against flu to triggers an innate immune response and inflammation and this initial response will protect the body from Coronavirus.
Christmas may look very different this year unless we have a vaccine by then which is looking more likely than the UK having a working app.
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