It's Suddenly Cold Out. Am I Going to Get Sick?
As the thermometer drops, infection does become more likely—but it’s not because of the temperature.
A couple of weeks ago, the temperature in New York dropped something like 30 degrees in the span of a day. A month or so earlier, the city had seen the reverse— a 40-something-degree day was followed soon after by an unseasonable 70-degree one. Weather is my favorite boring thing to talk about, so whenever I saw someone after these rapid temperature changes I said something like, “Crazy weather, huh?” Usually they replied “Yep!” or “I know,” bringing our conversationfalls sick every time. So who is susceptible, and why?
