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Australia has its seasons shifted by half a year, so even if Australia had taken similar measures, I'd expect them to have a lot lower transmission rates because respiratory disease peak in winter. https://www.mja.com.au/sites/default/files/issues/210_10/mja...

[threeseed]

1) No evidence that COVID-19 is affected by weather.

2) Australia and US have quite similar temperatures right now given that it’s often moderate in Autumn/Spring.

[heartbreak]

There is abundant evidence that COVID-19 is affected by weather. [0] There is no evidence that the spread of COVID-19 is halted by weather.

[0] Google Scholar search of “COVID-19 humidity”