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Climatological and social fallacies about COVID-19 pandemic
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has emerged as a major global challenge since 2019. With the fast rise in the infected cases and deaths worldwide, many environmental and climate-related myths and fallacies spreaded fast. These fallacies include virus cannot spread in hot and humid conditions, cold we...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8136260/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42398-021-00175-9 |
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author | Farooq, Ambar Kumar, Uttam Uddin, Junaite Bin Gais Rashid, Muhammad Haroon U. Gilani, Matoor Mohsin Farooq, Taimoor Hassan Shakoor, Awais Ahmad, Matloob |
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description | Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has emerged as a major global challenge since 2019. With the fast rise in the infected cases and deaths worldwide, many environmental and climate-related myths and fallacies spreaded fast. These fallacies include virus cannot spread in hot and humid conditions, cold weather can inhibit the virus, drinking hot water and sunlight can help cure the COVID-19, ultraviolet (UV) disinfectant lamps and UV rays from sunlight can kill the virus, use of hairdryers and hot showers for virus prevention, etc. Social norms and mindset of the people in the world towards a pandemic are quite similar. The primary purpose of this article is to enlighten the readers regarding these climatological misconceptions and social fallacies, helping spread proper knowledge and manage the outbreak of this deadly pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-81362602021-05-21 Climatological and social fallacies about COVID-19 pandemic Farooq, Ambar Kumar, Uttam Uddin, Junaite Bin Gais Rashid, Muhammad Haroon U. Gilani, Matoor Mohsin Farooq, Taimoor Hassan Shakoor, Awais Ahmad, Matloob Environmental Sustainability Commentary Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has emerged as a major global challenge since 2019. With the fast rise in the infected cases and deaths worldwide, many environmental and climate-related myths and fallacies spreaded fast. These fallacies include virus cannot spread in hot and humid conditions, cold weather can inhibit the virus, drinking hot water and sunlight can help cure the COVID-19, ultraviolet (UV) disinfectant lamps and UV rays from sunlight can kill the virus, use of hairdryers and hot showers for virus prevention, etc. Social norms and mindset of the people in the world towards a pandemic are quite similar. The primary purpose of this article is to enlighten the readers regarding these climatological misconceptions and social fallacies, helping spread proper knowledge and manage the outbreak of this deadly pandemic. Springer Singapore 2021-05-20 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8136260/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42398-021-00175-9 Text en © Society for Environmental Sustainability 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Farooq, Ambar Kumar, Uttam Uddin, Junaite Bin Gais Rashid, Muhammad Haroon U. Gilani, Matoor Mohsin Farooq, Taimoor Hassan Shakoor, Awais Ahmad, Matloob Climatological and social fallacies about COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Climatological and social fallacies about COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Climatological and social fallacies about COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Climatological and social fallacies about COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Climatological and social fallacies about COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Climatological and social fallacies about COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | climatological and social fallacies about covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8136260/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42398-021-00175-9 |
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