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Message: [QUOTE="pj, post: 3478821, member: 2524"] Warmer and more humid probably matters, but it's probably equally a matter of age distribution in the population and which strain they've gotten. There are two strains: [URL="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2236544-coronavirus-are-there-two-strains-and-is-one-more-deadly/"]Coronavirus: Are there two strains and is one more deadly?[/URL] -- one of them has fatality rates of 5-15% and was the first to appear in November 2019, the other has fatality rates of 0.1-1% and appeared in December-January. Probably Wuhan and Iran got the severe strain but the less severe strain is dominant in most places now. Most likely, the first was engineered as a bioweapon and the second was a weakened virus designed to be a vaccine. The authorities are letting the "vaccine" spread around the world, thus the UK government decision to let it spread in the UK, [URL="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-herd-immunity-uk-covid-19-pandemic-outbreak-flu-a9400171.html"]Experts cast doubt on UK plan to allow large amount of population to catch coronavirus for ‘herd immunity’[/URL], a policy which would make no sense if it weren't protective against the more severe strain. [/QUOTE]