It is about how various components of or methods in geography can play a role in dealing with Covid-19.
Warm weather may help to contain the spread of the coronavirus,
https://time.com/5790880/coronavirus-warm-weather-summer/
and weather is highly dependent on geography.
Current data also suggest that the majority of the infected children have mild or no symptoms. This means that the innate immune system of the children helps to defend the Coronavirus. And reinstalling the innate immune system in adults by eliminating the metabolic syndromes may help the adult people in defending the possible coronavirus infection. So no matter if a person has been infected or not, reducing or curing the metabolic syndrome can reduce the severity of the infection. Try to follow the Luigi Cornaro diet described in my book:
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This is a preventative measure. The restrictive eating in the Luigi Cornaro diet reduces metabolic syndrome and promotes recovery from the possible infection. Metabolic syndromes may complicate the SARS-CoV-2 viral infection, and make it more life-threatening.In the Luigi Cornaro diet, by triggering autophagy (xenophagy) in each cell of our body, we will rely on the microbiome (including the virus if one is infected) in our body as nutrition source.
Microbes (mainly the gut microbiome) are important to us not because they are "good old friend"; but because they are potential pathogens to us. That's why we developed our immune system to cope with them during our co-evolution with them in the past millions of years, and we need them: 1) to enhance our immune system; 2) they are the only source of the essential nutrients for our body, because they have a much larger reservation of genes than human being. Without the microorganisms in our food or inside our body, malnutrition is inevitable, no matter how many foods we eat:
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In my diet, I use raw fermented rice everyday as a microbiome supplement. You may introduce microbiota in your food in a similar way.
When autophagy is running in each cell in our body every day, foreign genes (like the virus) and any dysfunctional cell components be cleaned, and be used as nutrition source to repair our damaged body cell. In this way, we can prevent the accumulation of foreign genes (like the virus) and any dysfunctional cell components from developing into illness.
Please note that this preventative measure does not serve as a medical advice. If you are already sick, please consult your doctors and follow their instructions.
I agree what Ligen Yu said, it has been observed in the Indian Sub-continent that virus is less spreading due to early precautions and due to the Summer season, the climate is hot and humid which make Indian less venerable.@ Francis Arthur-Holmes
Regardless of the in / out volume of human movement; when you look at the coronavirus spread maps. you can directly see that it has real difficulties in penetrating hot and dry (desertic) areas, especially in the north of China and in Africa.
Urban geography can be very helpful in that the spatial organization of the city determines the spatial pattern of the spread of the disease. Even quarantine depends on the spatial organization of neighborhood. In China, gated community proves to be advantageous for quarantine purpose.
Specific location is the basic concept of geography, so many locations having less temperature and moist conditions may increase vulnerability of COVID 19, other hand the locations having dry and hot conditions may against for spreading!!
We can earmark hotspots of Covid-19 and hotspot analysis can help us in marking Geo-fence of the coronavirus disease
There are so many ways geography and its tools can help in dealing with COVID 19 through understanding of this new disease, its source and dynamics. For instance, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) could be used to track contagion. Mapping of COVID-19 cases will help to reduce the spread of the disease. Healthmap can be developed to collect outbreak data from sources like news media. Having a healthmap's interactive map for COVID-19 offer near-real-time updates from diverse sources to combat its spread.
Janet Lane
yeah u right..less humidity is better to kill the virus quicker. this sort of weather is in India right now. But it mostly depends upon how much precautions u take and how much u avoid traveling.
Most probably, warm weather will help to control the spread of the Coronavirus. Sri Lanka had warmer weather after March 13th to date and I believe, this has also contributed to control Covid- 19 cases at 244.
In addition, global spatial distribution pattern of the Covid-19 reveals that the human behavioral pattern has become a major determining factor for the spread of Coronavirus.
Most probably, warm weather will help to control the spread of the Coronavirus. Sri Lanka had warmer weather after March 13th to date and I believe, this has also contributed to control Covid- 19 cases. .
In addition, global spatial distribution pattern of the Covid-19 reveals that the population density (urban areas) and human behavioral pattern have become major determining factor for the spread of Coronavirus.
Geography is unique subject which bridging the social sciences and the natural sciences. The location analysis is core aspect of geographical studies. The spatial distribution and spread of disease is part of medical geography. The application of Geospatial Technology i.e. GIS, GPS and Remote Sensing is helpful for critical analysis.
Geography attempts to answer four basic questions; What? Where? Why? and How? Question what relates to specific phenomenon on the earth surface. Where is a question of location. Why refers to factor or processes influencing the location of specific phenomenon. Question how has to do with pattern that a specific phenomenon form on the earth surface. Since COVID-19 is a phenomenon, Geography with its spatial perspective is in the best position to provide a holistic view of the origin, diffusion/spread, effect and factors influencing the occurrence and spread of COVID-19.
Geography deals with special dimension and pays more attention to study about man environmental relationships. By using modern geographical techniques and methods we can identify special distribution patterns and we can analyze how human and environmental factors effect the spread of COVID - 19.
Geography as the study of location and spatial patterns of phenomena is well positioned to help in the investigation of the physical, social and economic characteristics of places where COVID-19 first broke out, why and how it spread nationally and internationally, and the extent and rate at which it moved from place to place. Researchers who specialise in this aspect of geography are referred to as medical geographers or spatial epidemiologists. They often form part of interdisciplinary research teams that include virologists, physicians, ICT and GIS specialists.
An example of how geography can help in dealing with COVID-19 is the excellent preprint posted on researchgate by Benjamino Murgante and others titled:
Why Italy First? Health, Geographical and Planning aspects of the Covid-19 outbreak. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341160546_Why_Italy_First_Health_Geographical_and_Planning_aspects_of_the_Covid_19_outbreak
Social Geography aspect is also very important in researching the socio-cultural impacts and changes due to COVID 19 Epidemic. How societies organized to survive with their typical value system, traditional herbal treatments as a prevention method, Space and Movement concepts (Geography of Migration) are very much related to COVID research from Geographic Perspective.
There are many ways in Geography help in Covid-19 such as medical Geographical tools, Remote sensing tools such as GPS, GIS (ArcGIS, QGIS). We can able to divide the category of Covid-19 suffered area( high number of cases areas, the high number of death areas, low number of cases areas, low number of death areas), hospitalization for patients, etc with the help of GIS. Many software is available to prepare a map with GIS such as QGIS, ArcGIS, etc.
There is not clear data yet to find a model how spread Covid-19 in the world?
Geography not only explains where the distribution of covid-19 is but may also analyze why they are there. Moreover, it can also predict where it may happen when we know where crowds may occur at a certain time and place. Of course, we should have to know who are suspects in that crowd and their behaviour. It is a Behaviour Geography combine with Health Geography matters
There are many aspects that geography deals with regarding COVID-19.
As a physical geographer, we may track the changes and patterns of some satellite-derived air quality variables such as NO2 above cities.
For human geography, mapping COVID-19 causes and analyze them spatially is one of the clearer roles.
Hope this gives an idea about some roles.
Geography defines, particularly climatic conditions; air temperature, rainfall , evaporation, solar radiation, specific humidity, wind speed and topographic pattern. In addition to that population density, settlement patterns, nutrient level, attitudes of life, religious and cultural customs are
influences in this regards at the regional/ spatial distribution with the number of COVID-19 infections.
There are many aspects that geography deals with regarding COVID-19.
As a physical geographer, we may track the changes and patterns of some satellite-derived air quality variables such as NO2 above cities.
For human geography, mapping COVID-19 causes and analyze them spatially is one of the clearer roles.
Hope this gives an idea about some roles.