Plain Dealer (September 28)
“The Cleveland Clinic is now seeing its highest volume of COVID-19 patients since last winter” and looks likely to worsen. “The Clinic’s forecasts predict the highest volumes of COVID-19 patients will come in the next several weeks, as this current pandemic wave peaks in northern Ohio.”
Tags: Cleveland Clinic, COVID-19, Forecasts, Highest, Ohio, Pandemic, Patients, Peaks, Volume, Wave, Winter, Worsen
San Francisco Chronicle (September 14)
“Recent research shows that warmer weather and less precipitation has more than doubled the frequency of autumn days with extreme fire danger in California. The situation is expected to worsen.” Tackling climate change would help as would better forest management, but climate change complicates thinning the forests. “The state’s fire season has grown by an estimated 75 days in recent decades,” narrowing the window then “crews can safely light fires to manage forest health.”
Tags: California, Climate change, Fire danger, Forest health, Forests, Precipitation, Research, Thinning, Weather, Worsen
