Virology: Current Research

Centre for Astrobiology, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka

Publications

• Review Article   
  Predicting the Future Trajectory of COVID-19
  Author(s): N Chandra Wickramasinghe*, Edward J Steele, Reginald M Gorczynski, Robert Temple, Gensuke Tokoro, Alexander Kondakov, Daryl H. Wallis, Brig Klyce and D T Wickramasinghe
  
  We argue that the new coronavirus COVID-19 was probably linked to the arrival of a pure culture of the virus in cometary debris that was deposited in the stratosphere, and first came down in the Hubei province of China. The subsequent worldwide spread of the virus has taken place by a combination of two effects: the deposition of further large quantities of virus at several locations – Iran, North Italy, South Korea – combined with much slower spread through person-to-person infection (itself enhanced largely by contaminated surfaces and personal affects). The location of the foci outside China all lie close to latitude 40 degrees N, consistent with the transport of aerosols by cyclonic winds in the stratosphere. It is also remarkably consistent with observations in the 1960’s of the fall-out of radioactive dust deposited in the stratosphere in the las.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/vcrh.2020.4.111

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