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Extroverts more likely to refuse vaccines, Canadian study finds

Wed, 2023-08-09 12:47 — mike kraft

Extroverts more likely to refuse vaccines, study finds - UPI.com Compared to other personality styles, extroverts were 18% more likely to refuse the COVID-19 vaccine, a new study found. UPI

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When studying which personality types were more likely to resist getting vaccines, researchers got a surprise.

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Canadian wildfire smoke hits more than a dozen US states

Mon, 2023-07-17 09:52 — mike kraft

Canadian wildfire smoke puts around 70 million US residents under air quality alerts | CNN Canadian wildfire smoke continues to plague the United States, triggering air quality alerts for more than a dozen states from Montana to Vermont. Caitlin Kaiser CNN

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Revive Therapeutics' experimental COVID treatment fails in late-stage study

Thu, 2023-07-06 10:06 — mike kraft

Revive Therapeutics' experimental COVID treatment fails in late-stage study Canada-based Revive Therapeutics said on Thursday its experimental COVID-19 treatment did not meet the main goal of a late-stage study. Reuters Reuters

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Climate change keeps making wildfires and smoke worse -- the ‘new abnormal’

Mon, 2023-07-03 09:57 — mike kraft

Climate change keeps making wildfires and smoke worse. Scientists call it the 'new abnormal' As smoky as the summer has been so far, scientists say it will likely be worse in future years because of climate change. AP News

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Advice on coping with wildfire smoke and heat wave

Fri, 2023-06-30 09:51 — mike kraft

How to minimize the health risks from wildfire smoke | CNN Millions of people in the US are under air quality alerts as smoke from Canadian wildfires sweeps through the Midwest and East Coast. Jen Christensen CNN

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Canada: COVID case rate 19 times higher than reported previously--new study

Thu, 2023-06-29 18:46 — mike kraft

Wastewater sampling in Canada suggests COVID case rate 19 times higher than reported Sampling suggested that Omicron COVID-19 cases were up to 19 times higher than reported because of changes in clinical testing. CIDRAP

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A hot, smoky summer expected in much of America.

Thu, 2023-06-29 11:04 — mike kraft

Expect a hot, smoky summer in much of America. Here's why you'd better get used to it Forecasters say the only break much of America can hope for anytime soon from eye-watering dangerous smoke from fire-struck Canada is brief bouts of shirt-soaking sweltering heat and humidity from a southern heat wave that has already proven deadly. AP News

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Rain has failed to quell Canadian wildfires, and more smoky haze is on the way

Wed, 2023-06-28 18:38 — mike kraft

Rain has failed to quell Canadian wildfires, and more smoky haze is on the way, officials say Canadian officials say a large amount of rain in Quebec in recent days didn’t fall in the areas where there wildfires are most active and they expect air quality to remain a concern through the summer, as long as the fires continue. AP News

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Drifting smoke from the wildfires has lowered curtains of haze on broad swaths of Canada and the United States, pushing into southern Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, and moving into parts of West Virginia.

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ALSO SEE: More than a third of the US population, from the Midwest to the East Coast, under air quality alerts from Canadian wildfire smoke

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Canadian wildfires are causing unhealthy air quality again in parts of the US

Tue, 2023-06-27 17:28 — mike kraft

Canadian wildfires are causing unhealthy air quality again in Chicago and other parts of the US Drifting smoke from the ongoing wildfires across Canada is creating curtains of haze and raising air quality concerns throughout the Great Lakes region, and in parts of the central and eastern United States. AP News

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Opinion The wildfire smoke may be gone. But the health threat remains.

Tue, 2023-06-13 10:20 — mike kraft

Opinion | The wildfire smoke may be gone. But the health threat remains. How wildfire smoke impacts human health Leana S. Wen Washington Post

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