Laura will land as a category 4 hurricane: hundreds of thousands of people evacuated
Hurricane Laura continues to intensify. As of Wednesday morning, August 26, it is moving over the central Gulf of Mexico. This is the first major hurricane of 2020 and could have enormous consequences. Orlando Sentinel writes about it. It is predicted that Laura, who overnight ...
Hurricane protection: will insurance cover disaster damage
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) predicts Hurricane Laura will hit the Gulf Coast late Wednesday, August 26, or early Thursday morning, August 27. Millions of people had to evacuate, but will the insurance cover all the damage? Writes about this ...
Cancellation of Quarantine: CDC Changed Self-Isolation Guidelines
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has changed their guidelines for self-quarantine for 14 days after returning from travel abroad or to other states. Writes about this USA Today. The CDC has updated its travel requirements by advising ...
Fires and hurricanes: how to prepare for an emergency evacuation
Wildfires are raging in California, and two tropical storms are looming in the southern United States. Millions of Americans are forced to evacuate to save their lives. What to do in an emergency and what to take with you, the Mercury News reported. As the cataclysms continue ...
Tropical storms Laura and Marco go to the USA: in Haiti and the Dominican Republic they have already claimed 12 lives
At least 12 people were killed in two storms on Sunday 23 August in the Caribbean. Writes about this BBC. Hurricane Marco and Tropical Storm Laura caused high winds and storm surges, resulting in at least ...
Treatment of coronavirus with blood plasma: in the United States allowed to use an untested method
Regulatory authorities in the United States have decided to use the blood plasma of recovered patients in the treatment of patients with COVID-19, despite the lack of clinical trials confirming the effectiveness of this therapy. Writes about this BBC. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has adopted ...
WHO predicted when the COVID-19 pandemic will end
The World Health Organization (WHO) plans to completely defeat the COVID-19 pandemic in less than two years. According to the head of the WHO, Tedros Adan Ghebreyesus, the current pandemic is similar to the Spanish flu epidemic that hit the earth 100 years ago. He recalled how he suffered ...
The first time in history: two powerful hurricanes converge off the coast of the United States
The National Hurricane Center predicts that two tropical systems will reach hurricane strength, with both of them simultaneously raging in the Gulf of Mexico, writes USA Today. One of the systems is tropical storm Laura, which formed on the morning of Friday, August 21, in the Atlantic Ocean.…
A new strain of coronavirus swept the world: it may be more contagious
Southeast Asia is facing a new coronavirus outbreak caused by one of the new strains that has already swept across Europe and the United States. In the Philippines, it caused the largest outbreak in the region. Scientists are studying the strain to see if the mutation makes the virus more infectious. Writes about this ...
China and Russia announced the imminent entry into the market of their own vaccines against COVID-19
The Chinese COVID-19 vaccine could hit the market as early as the end of December. Liu Jingzhen, secretary of the party committee and chairman of the board of directors of the Sinopharm state corporation, spoke about this in an interview with Guanming Daily, writes RBC. “After completion of the third stage of international clinical trials...