Hurricane Delta touched a few days ago in Louisiana, an area still dealing with the fallout of Hurricane Laura which hit just two months ago. Areas of Louisiana are experiencing major flooding, and 5.5 million people in the surrounding area are under flash flood warning. Hurricane Delta made!-->…
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China has already promised to have a vaccine ready by the end of the year and has committed to sharing the vaccine with certain nations. It has also joined COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access which is aiming to provide doses of the vaccine to the most vulnerable groups and health care workers. However!-->…
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This year Americans have spent more time in emergency housing than any year in the past decade, with three months still to go in 2020. This is striking considering that the wildfire season is just beginning and that hurricanes are still a danger. The increase in natural disasters caused by climate!-->…
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Indigenous groups have traditionally set fires to improve the health of forests and reduce underbush. This practice was reduced after Europeans settled in the US and functionally stopped after “The Big Blowup” wildfire in 1910. Experts saw the risk of this, and in the 1990s forest managers!-->…
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As the Coronavirus death toll tops 200,000 in the United States we are forced to reflect upon our successes and failures in confronting this pandemic. According to Johns Hopkins University, the United States leads the world in total confirmed cases and deaths. Disjointed rules and regulations,!-->…
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Johnson & Johnson has recently announced that their vaccine has begun the third and final phase of clinical trials. They are the fourth company in the United States to do so. Their trial is larger than Moderna’s and Pfizer’s which will provide a better sense of the safety of the vaccine and!-->…
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In these past months America has been hit with an overwhelming number of natural disasters. California has experienced its worst wildfire season of its history. As erratic natural disasters become more common, thanks to worsening climate change, certain regions of the United States will become!-->…
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Interferons play an important, yet complicated, role in suppressing virus replication, and they are currently being researched as a possible treatment for COVID-19. Studies on interferons have produced somewhat contradictory results. One study found that people with severe COVID-19 had a decrease!-->…
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