With the end of the PHEIC phase, a series of predictions have been made trying to forecast the current as well as future pandemics.
nature.com/articles/d41586-023

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Regardless of the means used to make those predictions, there's a key metric that correlates with the emergence of large outbreaks. Stationary points in the Schwabe or solar cycle cluster many of the different large outbreaks.

sciencedirect.com/science/arti

Looking at other cycles with different duration points towards the bubonic plague and other prominent outbreaks.

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There could be many reasons for such a correlation. One possibility is that low solar radiation also implies low UV radiation.
kaggle.com/code/tavoglc/solar-

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Low levels of UV radiation could increase the overall virus concentrations in the environment. As UV radiation is used to kill/inactivate viruses.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/

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Adaptations to solar radiation can also be found inside the SARS Cov2 genome. The genome changes its size over time, reaching a minimum at a season with large sunshine duration and large UV radiation.

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