Covid-19, unlike the flu, hasn’t fallen into a seasonal pattern — yet

Covid-19, a disease with tricks up its sleeve, hasn’t fallen into a seasonal pattern — yet SARS-CoV-2 has not yet fallen into a predictable seasonal pattern of the type most respiratory pathogens follow, experts say. Helen Branswell STAT

To most people on the planet, the Covid-19 pandemic is over. But for many scientists who have been tracking the largest global infectious disease event in the era of molecular biology, there is still a step that the virus that caused it, SARS-CoV-2, hasn’t yet taken. It has not fallen into a predictable seasonal pattern of the type most respiratory pathogens follow.

...