Climatological and Social Fallacies About COVID-19 Pandemic

Overview

Journal Environ Sustain (Singap)

Date 2024 Apr 16

PMID 38624610

Authors

Ambar Farooq

Uttam Kumar

Junaite Bin Gais Uddin

Muhammad Haroon U Rashid

Matoor Mohsin Gilani

Taimoor Hassan Farooq

Awais Shakoor

Matloob Ahmad

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Abstract

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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