(Makes you want to throw on a mask, huh?) Covid-19’s fatty outer membrane becomes rubbery in cold weather - easing its transmission between people whose dry and winter-damaged nasal passages are more susceptible anyway. Winter is a double-edged sword: We are more indoors, increasing our risk among those around us, and the colder, less humid weather can increase the viral load of the air we’re breathing in. Go to this search bar to look up your county's risk level and to get suggestions about what to do to stay safe.Īnd those numbers don’t lie. (A county is considered to be at an extremely high risk level if it either reports more than 640 cases per 100,000 people during the past two weeks or has more than 10 percent of test results reported as positive.) And while cases have fallen from their record highs in January, an average of more than 3,000 daily deaths from the virus were reported that month. counties are at an extremely high risk for contracting the virus. Even with dips in new cases later this winter, the numbers are still far above those from before November.Īcross the country, the overall Covid-19 risk level is far worse now than ever before, according to coronavirus cases and testing data analyzed by The Times and public health experts. 8 with almost 300,600 new cases that day. Cases have increased rather steadily since November, which saw four million new cases in that month alone, climaxing on Jan.
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