Category: Natural Disasters

KHN on the Air This Week

COVID-19, Elections, Montana, Natural Disasters, public health, States / October 9, 2020 October 9, 2020

KHN reporter Victoria Knight discussed this week’s vice presidential debate with Newsy’s “Morning Rush” on Thursday. Click here to watch Knight on Newsy Read “In Debate, Pence and Harris Offer Conflicting Views of Nation’s Reality,” by the staffs of KHN and PolitiFact KHN chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis on WFAE’s “Charlotte …

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How to Weigh Evacuation Options With Both Wildfires and COVID at Your Door

California, COVID-19, Environmental Health, Natural Disasters, public health, States / August 28, 2020 August 28, 2020

As the smoke thickened near her home in Santa Cruz, California, last week, Amanda Smith kept asking herself the same questions: Should we leave? And where would we go? The wildfire evacuation zone, at the time, ended a few blocks from her house. But she worried about what the air quality — which had reached …

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Wildfires Provide Another Reason to Mask Up

Asking Never Hurts, California, COVID-19, Environmental Health, Natural Disasters, public health, States / August 25, 2020 August 25, 2020

If you have declined to wear a face mask during the COVID-19 crisis, you might want to reconsider, as the smoke from over 300 wildfires chokes people across central and Northern California. But you are going to have to think a little more about what kind of mask is best. The fires have spewed toxic …

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COVID Plans Put to Test as Firefighters Crowd Camps for Peak Wildfire Season

Arizona, Colorado, COVID-19, Idaho, Montana, Natural Disasters, public health, States / August 20, 2020 August 20, 2020

HELENA, Mont. — Jon Paul was leery entering his first wildfire camp of the year late last month to fight three lightning-caused fires scorching parts of a Northern California forest that hadn’t burned in 40 years. The 54-year-old engine captain from southern Oregon knew from experience that these crowded, grimy camps can be breeding grounds …

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Must-Reads of the Week

Children's Health, COVID-19, Friday Breeze, Global Health Watch, Natural Disasters, Ohio, public health, States / August 7, 2020 August 7, 2020

Hi, I’m back with a revamped Friday Breeze, tackling a few hot health care topics of the week and some news you may have missed. Here’s what the Breeze blew in this week, in these dog days of our COVID-constrained, socially distant summer: Schools Reopen: No Easy Answers for Keeping Kids Healthy It’s back-to-school time, …

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