Mass spread in public baths shows that high temperature, high humidity and difficult to prevent the virus from invading the human body

For this outbreak, it was once thought that as summer approaches, the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) will gradually disappear, and high temperatures and humidity can slow the spread of the virusHowever, a recent study published in the journal JAMA Network Open suggests that high temperatures and humidity may also be difficult to stop THE pace of SARS-CoV-2 intrusion into the human bodydoi:10.1001/jamanetworkopenopen.2020.4583led by Professor Shen Hongbing of Nanjing Medical University, the study revealed an outbreak of a mass infection in a public bath in Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province: a patient with new coronary pneumonia (COVID-19) came to the bath with symptoms and transmitted the virus to eight other healthy people within the next 6 daysthe bath center is about 300m2, with a temperature of between 25 and 41 C and a humidity of about 60%On January 18, 2020, the first patient who had been to Wuhan came to the bath and began to develop symptoms of fever the day after returning home, and was diagnosed with COVID-19 on January 25, 2020seven patients had been to the sauna and bath at the bath after the patient left the bathroom on 19 January (three patients), 20 January (one patient), 23 January (two patients) and 24 January (one patient)The seven patients developed fever, cough, headache and chest tightness 6-9 days after leaving the bathing centre, while one bath staff member became ill on 30 January, and all patients tested positive for RT-PCRall nine patients were treated at huai'an Fourth Hospital, with a median age of 35 (24-50)Eight of them reported fever symptoms (an average duration of 5.78 days), 7 reported cough symptoms and 3 patients developed symptoms of weakness, chest tightness or anorexiaIn nine patients, C-reactive protein levels increased, lymphocytes decreased in 3 patients, lactic acid dehydrogenase increased in 3 patients, and 2 patients had elevated glutamate acetaminophenyacid transaminaseAlthough the CT results of the nine patients showed glass-like cloudy, as of February 10, 2020, no patients needed respiratory supportat the end of the report, the researchers note that previous studies have shown that the virus travels significantly less quickly in high temperatures and humidity environmentsHowever, from the results of this study, the spread of SARS-CoV-2 shows no sign of abating in warm and humid conditions, and public baths may also be an important environment for virus transmission, which provides epidemiological clues for SARS-CoV-2April 1, Zhong Nanshan academician in an interview with the media, said it is not clear whether the virus will disappear with the arrival of high temperaturesHere, the small editor or want to emphasize a sentence: the virus has not disappeared, must not be a big idea!References: .