Everything I said is just from preliminary information so far - there's a ton to be learned about how this particular virus updates. Considering that damn near everyone operates in AC and climate control a lot of the time and people traveling back and forth from state to state regularly, it could still potentially spread in warmer places too, even if it ain't as "likely" as in the cooler regions. And a lot of times random shyt just happens.
The early epidemiology models predicted that Thailand would be the 2nd place to get hit hard, as there's so much travel constantly between China and Bangkok. Yet all of Thailand has only had 80 cases (half of those have recovered) and 1 death so far. Whereas Iran and Italy don't have nearly as much travel from China yet are at nearly 2000 deaths combined now.
On the other hand, the Philippines is just as warm and wet as Bangkok and they've had 8 deaths. That could just be because they had a bunch of folk working on the cruise ships and in China and they all got sick outside of the island. But we'll see.
