Despite the bright blue skies and fairly comfortable temperatures, Quincy Market and Faneuil Hall where empty with only a couple street musicians and occasional foot traffic, as tourists and residents stay away due to the coronavirus, Sunday March 16, 2020, in Boston. While links between temperature, humidity and the spread of coronaviruses have been closely studied in recent weeks, a new study suggests something else could be enhancing the spread of COVID-19: Boston’s latitude. A new study from the University of Maryland hypothesizes that areas in latitudes between 30 and 50 degrees, along with other temperature and climatological factors, could be particularly vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19. The study notes that most of the largest known outbreaks of COVID-19 have taken place in a specific latitudinal zone, where a colder and drier air mass appears to be more conducive […]