Researchers found that it is not the increase in average summer temperature that boosted death rates, but heatwaves: how long they last, night-time temperatures and humidity levels. Photo: AFP
More than a third of summer heat-related fatalities are due to climate change, researchers said recently, warning of even higher death tolls as global temperatures climb.
Previous research on how climate change affects human health has mostly projected future risks from heatwaves, droughts, wild fires and other extreme events made worse by global warming.
How much worse depends on how quickly humanity curbs carbon emissions, which hit record levels in 2019 but dipped sharply during the pandemic.
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US Study Predicts Malaysia May Record A Total Of 26,000 COVID-19 Deaths By September
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Malaysia s COVID-19 death toll may hit 26,000 by September, a study by the University of Washington projected
According to Bernama, the projection was made by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) â an independent population health research centre that is part of the University of Washington â based on the current trajectory of COVID-19 related deaths reported in Malaysia.
The study, which involved not only Malaysia but other countries as well, was last updated on the independent global health research centre s website on Thursday, 27 May.
There were many warnings before 2020 that humanity’s most clear and present danger was a new pathogen and the global pandemic it could cause. AFP
THE Covid-19 pandemic is not over, but it is already clear that Lord Rees, Britain’s astronomer royal, has won his 2017 bet with the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker that “bioterror or bioerror will lead to one million casualties in a single event within a six-month period starting no later than Dec 31,2020.”
Last year, according to Johns Hopkins University, the SARS-CoV-2 virus claimed the lives of 1.8 million people. The global death toll could exceed five by Aug 1 – or nine, if one accepts the drastic new upward revision by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. It could have been worse, of course. In March 2020, some epidemiologists argued that, without drastic social distancing and economic lockdowns, the ultimate death toll could be between 30 and 40 million. Yet the cost of such non-pharmaceutical intervent
Sri Lanka Has Not One, Two Viruses: Covid 19 & Corruption
“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.” ~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Gotabaya Rajapaksa
When the Covid-19 virus attacked the globe, firstly The People’s Republic of China and thereafter indiscriminately all over, those countries whose leaders adopted policies based on science and plain simple logic managed the containment of the virus to an acceptable level that can be called satisfactory. But the counties which have narcissistic leaders at the helm, who thought that they are bigger than the country they lead, chose to play a very self-centered game. For them the pandemic crisis was another opportunity to display their self-proclaimed uniqueness. As usual, the United States of America, the sole ‘mega super power’ in the world, took the lead in this idiotic venture.