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Coronavirus may wane this summer, but don't count on any seasonal variation to end the pandemic

  • Written by Ellen Wright Clayton, Professor of Pediatrics and Law and Health Policy, Vanderbilt University
Plenty of warm and humid places – including Miami – are seeing the spread of SARS-CoV-2.Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Will SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, fade away on its own this summer?

After all, other viruses – including influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which causes...

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