Day: July 28, 2021

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When Will It Get Too Hot for the Body to Survive?

Fernando Kaskais

Climate change is devising new ways to kill you. BY MATTHEW LEWIS There is no shortage of ways to die, and everyone has to do it, but as climate change becomes the “new normal,” the list has grown in some disturbing ways. Powerful superstorms are leveling our communities with growing frequency. Wildfires are raging through forest areas, turning entire towns to cinders. Floods are eroding and swallowing our buildings. And now we can add to the list: Deadly heat is cooking us alive. Late June’s deadly heat wave across the western half of North America killed hundreds in the Pacific Northwest and brought … Continue reading When Will It Get Too Hot for the Body to Survive?

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Your Vaccinated Immune System Is Ready for Breakthroughs

Fernando Kaskais

Getting COVID-19 when you’re vaccinated isn’t the same as getting COVID-19 when you’re unvaccinated. By Katherine J. Wu A new dichotomy has begun dogging the pandemic discourse. With the rise of the über-transmissible Delta variant, experts are saying you’re either going to get vaccinated, or going to get the coronavirus. For some people—a decent number of us, actually—it’s going to be both. Coronavirus infections are happening among vaccinated people. They’re going to keep happening as long as the virus is with us, and we’re nowhere close to beating it. When a virus has so thoroughly infiltrated the human population, post-vaccination infections become an arithmetic inevitability. As much as we’d … Continue reading Your Vaccinated Immune System Is Ready for Breakthroughs