Is climate change impacting the spread of viruses including COVID-19, monkeypox?

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Is climate change impacting the spread of viruses including COVID-19, monkeypox?
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Climate change can have an impact on the environment, but a new report says it could affect how diseases are spread, affecting people's health.

We know that climate change has an impact on our environment, but it's also impacting our health.

There have been seven public health emergencies of international concern in the last 15 years according to the World Health Organization. "Viruses spread most efficiently based on, not only humans getting together in different ways, when you think about human-to-human transmission, but the whole relationship that humans have to the ecosystem," Dr. Chin-Hong said. "So, to things around us."

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