Why was the heat NOT enough to stop COVID-19? This is what was discovered »ILMETEO.it

The structure of the new coronavirusIn the months when theItaly was eaten by the pandemic and looked forward to the next summer season as in the moment when the spread of COVID-19 it could have stopped: all this, however, did not happen and, despite an initial marked improvement in the situation in Italy, even in hot months daily new infections newsletter it did not register a real stop, with an actual worsening between late August and early September.
The belief that the pathogen would “disappear” with heat arose from the fact that the SARS-CoV-2 comes from the family of gods coronavirus, which also includes the dell’influenza virus: “normal” influences, in fact, with high temperatures, typical ofestate, tend to disappear completely, so it was thought that COVID-19 could also follow the same path.

Then it was not: but why? The examples come from various parts of the world with The weather is warm and humidlet’s think aboutIndia or Brazil, where the pandemic is registering new peaks day after day.
At the moment, nobody knows exactly why the virus behaves this way, but they exist some investigation that shed light on some interesting virus-related aspects in relation to climate.

In particular, a group of Hungarian researchers He recently tried to “pierce” the coronavirus with a very fine needle, to measure the intensity of the force required to detonate the viron (viral particle) – the result of this test, published on the site Biorxiv.org (but not yet peer reviewed) was surprising. The drilling, repeated several times, did not work: the coronavirus was not punctured.

The second search implemented to try to better understand how the new virus might behave comes from China: as reported South China morning post, a college team Tsinghua of Beijing, published in the Cell magazine more detailed structural reconstruction of the virus, finding that the pathogen may be able to accumulate a large amount of nucleic acid, or macromolecules capable of carrying genetic data in a very tight envelope.

Finally, a test by French scientists found that the virus would be capable of replicate in animal cells with some consistency after being exposed to temperatures of 60 degrees Celsius for one hour.

Outbreaks in the northern hemisphere during the summer have suggested that high temperatures did not slow the spread at all of the COVID-19, as expected previously.