Coronavirus can survive high temperatures, so might not abate this summer: study

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A person carries a sign at the beach on April 17, in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Even if warmer temps were to slow the spread of the virus, chillier temperatures would help it re-emerge, epidemiologist Dr. Anthony Fauci has said. Which means it that with or without a summer lull, we would have to contend with a possible resurgence in the fall.(Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)

Speculation has swirled throughout the coronavirus pandemic that when summer comes, the virus will fade away, much like the seasonal flu. But little evidence has surfaced to support that assumption, and now yet another study – though not yet peer-reviewed – adds to the indications that heat does not kill this thing.

Researchers at University of Aix-Marseille in France found that Sars-COV-2, the clinical name for the novel coronavirus that has infected 2.4 million around the world and killed more than 165,000 (40,000 of those in the United States), does not die unless you roast it for 15 minutes at 197 degrees Fahrenheit.

The virus survived when subjected to the usual heat-decontamination measures, which entail heating it to 140 degrees Fahrenheit, according to The Jerusalem Post. The virus not only stayed viable when heated for an entire hour at 140 degrees but also managed to replicate, researchers Remi Charrel and Boris Pastorino, both professors at the university, noted in their study.

The time it took to kill the virus also seemed correlated to the viral load, or the amount of virus being heated, The Hill noted.

The study, published on bioRxiv, a website that hosts pre-prints of studies before they have been peer-reviewed, has not yet been formally vetted, making the findings preliminary, as Newsweek noted.

However, these findings mirror previous indications that the virus may very well endure through the summer months, as The Hill reported.

Even if warmer temps were to slow the spread of the virus, chillier temperatures would help it re-emerge, epidemiologist Dr. Anthony Fauci has said. Which means it that with or without a summer lull, we would have to contend with a possible resurgence in the fall.