Will the pandemic get worse in the winter?

Published: Aug. 6, 2020, 7:30 a.m.

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Winter is coming in the northern hemisphere and traditionally it is time for colds and flu.\\nThis has raised fears that coronavirus will surge when the seasons change, possibly leading to a second wave of the disease that is even bigger than the first.\\nHowever, predicting what a Covid winter will look like is complex and uncertainty reigns - there are reasons both to be worried and to be reassured.

Contributors: \\n. Micaela Martinez, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University\\n. Katherine Wu, a health and science journalist with The New York Times\\n. Judit Vall, a professor in health and labour economics at the University of Barcelona\\n. Dominique Moisi, the author of The Geopolitics of Emotion.

(A man walks through a snowfall in Sarajevo, wearing a mask as protection against Covid-19. Credit Mustafa Ozturk / Getty Images)

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