With all the rain we’re getting, you’d like to wish it could wash away the coronavirus.
There has been talk about how weather could help make the virus go away sooner than later.
The nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has said that as we get closer to summer, the warming temperatures and hot weather could make it harder for the virus to live and spread.Similar to the way it works with the regular flu.
No one really knows for sure, but maybe extreme weather can help us get rid of the virus.
A hot dry Santa Ana maybe.Or those big thunderstorms in the Midwest. Or maybe those sauna like days in the Southeast.Not severe or dangerous weather but just some extreme weather to help get rid of this extreme and contagious virus.
The answer, of course, to getting this virus to go away lies not in the science of weather but in the science of medicine.
And thankfully there are researchers right here in San Diego who have come up with possible vaccines that are already in clinical trials.
And it wouldn’t be surprising if San Diego scientists were the ones who came up with something to defeat the coronavirus. It’s happened before. That scientist’s name was Dr. Jonas Salk, who some 60 years ago, found the answer to polio and founded the Salk Institute in La Jolla whose motto today is “Where Cures Begin”.
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