We look at the science behind respiratory and other illnesses and the cold weather
With temperatures set to dip close to freezing at times as yellow weather warnings cover large parts of northern England and Scotland, people are bracing for a rise in coughs and colds.
The other key factor, which has only recently become well understood, is the effect of the cold weather on your immune system – weakening its ability to fight off infection., published by Harvard Medical School in December 2022, discovered a previously unidentified immune response inside the nose that fights off viruses responsible for upper respiratory infections.
The colder weather comes as Dr Jamie Lopez Bernal, Consultant Epidemiologist at UK Health Security Agency , warns “we expect to see all respiratory illnesses increasing over the winter”. There was no new data on Covid positivity rates last week due to a “data processing issue” but hospitalisations continued to fall over the week, dropping by 21 per cent, the UKHSA figures showed.
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