Health – Climate State

Trump’s Disconnect on COVID-19’s Long-Term Effects #Coronavirus

2020, Global, Health, Impacts, Policy, USABy Editor July 20, 2020 Leave a comment

What is basically among the worst response types one can imagine, the Trump administration gambles with the health of the public for years to come. I can’t shake Covid-19: Warnings from young survivors still suffering https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/18/health/long-term-effects-young-people-covid-wellness/index.html A complete failure in leadership. https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1284912895151792133 Chair of UK Vaccine Taskforce, Kate Bingham says “there has never been a…

Health: How to Prepare for a Coronavirus Infection

2020, Health, VirusesBy Editor March 12, 2020 Leave a comment

This is not a health advice, for health advice consult your doctor, and follow the official governmental and health organization announcements (CDC, WHO etc.). Yet, since there is as of this writing no known treatment the following steps may help healthy people, your body, to prepare for a potential infection with the coronavirus, the COVID19…

A Worst Case Scenario for the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

2020, Health, Impacts, VirusesBy Editor March 4, 2020 1 Comment

The current governmental response is to quarantine suspected and identified cases of infection, the scope here is to slow down the spread of the virus, to give hospitals and institutions time to adapt. The large scale quarantine actions taken by the Chinese government, shutting down entire cities and the subsequent decline in reported cases suggest…

The Coronavirus Crisis a Taste of Climate Food Scarcities

2020, Disease, Food Security, Health, ImpactsBy Editor March 3, 2020 Leave a comment

People all around the world have one thing in common besides the potential exposure to the new emerging novel pathogen, best know as simply the coronavirus, or designated as SARS-CoV-2 by officials, with the clinical illness called COVID-19, finding empty shelves at their local supermarket. The image is internationally the same, markets running out of…

How the Coronavirus is the Perfect Storm for the U.S.

2020, Health, ImpactsBy Editor March 3, 2020 4 Comments

Today The Washington Post’s Amy Goldstein asked, ‘Worries about medical bills and lost pay may hamper coronavirus efforts in the United States‘. She writes, The race to curb the spread of the new coronavirus could be thwarted by Americans fearful of big medical bills if they get tested, low-income workers who lose pay if they…

Threat Assessment Research: Comparing Global Phenomena, Coronavirus vs Climate Change

2020, Climate Change, Communication, Health, Impacts, Microbiology, Psychology, VirusesBy Editor March 2, 2020 Leave a comment

If you follow the public input on the emerging coronavirus and look at how it compares to the history of the climate change learning curve, there are overlapping similarities. The similarities of a virulent Pandemic and Climate Change Global Magnitude Rate of change/emergence: Affected regions, unprecedented, when accounting for phenomena emergence, i.e. the rate of…

Climate Change as a Threat Multiplier for Conflicts

2020, Climate Change, Health, Impacts, PsychologyBy Editor March 1, 2020 1 Comment

When you hear a talk about climate, usually one argument is made in regards to people starting to migrate – they become climate refugees, in order to seek a new home. While literally the majority of the human population will be directly or indirectly impacted from the consequences which come with rising seas, and many…

Climate change and pathogens [Wuhan Coronavirus]

2020, Disease, Health, Microbiology, VirusesBy Editor January 25, 2020 Leave a comment

The frequency with which new, serious disease epidemics have been occurring is briefly mentioned, also in light of climate change, and climate and other pathogens. Columbia University State of the Planet (2014), Renee Cho wrote: [Generally], when it’s warmer, the disease transmission system speeds up. Some scientists think that climate change, with its increase in…

Europe dodged a Bullet during Record June Heatwave

2019, Drought, Europe, Extreme Weather, Germany, Health, Heat Stress, ImpactsBy Editor July 1, 2019 2 Comments

During the unprecedented extreme record breaking June Europe heatwave of 2019, many countries experienced the highest temperature for this month, some even set all time new temperature records, e.g. in the southern village of Gallargues-le-Montueux in France the thermometer settled at 45.9C (114.6F).[1] Europe’s five hottest summers since 1500 have all been in the 21st…

How the Impact of Our Climate Will Factor into Mental health

2019, Health, Impacts, PsychologyBy Editor May 31, 2019 Leave a comment

With the discussion of climate change being a hot topic as of late, you’ll definitely want to learn about it. But, there is also the fact that it can impact our mental health too, whether it be due to how we respond to it, or even just how we feel? Why does it matter? Well,…

Plot Review: The End of the World, 세계의끝 Korea (2013)

2019, Biosphere, Films, Health, Impacts, Microbiology, VirusesBy Editor May 10, 2019 1 Comment

세계의 끝, The End of the World, is a 2013 drama television show produced in South Korea, and directed by Ahn Pan-seok, based on the 2010 novel “Infectious Disease” by Bae Young-Ik. The plot centers around Kang Joo-Heon (Yoon Je-Moon) chief epidemiologist at the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who’s skills in deductive…

The Human Civilization is on Path to Destroy itself

2019, Denial, Emissions Reduction, Impacts, PsychologyBy Editor April 29, 2019 5 Comments

The broad spectrum of thoughts about the future Earth, changed forever by human caused global warming. There are those who claim we head for the extinction of the species in a few years. Then there are people who look at certain worst case scenarios, or here, or here – there are many more, extreme feedbacks…

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