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California wildfire advances as heat wave blankets US West

Loading the player… Firefighters struggled to contain an exploding Northern California wildfire under blazing temperatures as another heat wave hits the U.S. West this weekend, prompting an excessive heat warning for inland and desert areas. On Friday, Death Valley National Park in California recorded a staggering high of 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54 Celsius) and could… Read More »

Covid hospitalisations HALVE since January as cases fall to pre-second wave levels

NHS hospitals are now treating FEWER Covid patients than they were during darkest days of outbreak last Spring as statistics show hospitalisations have halved since January There were 20,156 Covid patients in hospital compared to 39,242 in January Those on ventilation beds plunged from 4,077 in January to 2,614 on Wednesday Data shows Covid cases plummeted… Read More »

Covid: The NHS workers ‘still recovering’ as second wave looms

“A junior doctor I spoke to the other day was talking about what a difficult time she’d found in another hospital,” says Dorothy Wade, a psychologist at University College Hospital in London. “And I said, ‘Didn’t you have anything like this at the other hospital?’ And she said, ‘No, absolutely nothing. There was nothing on… Read More »

There are signs that Europe’s second wave might have peaked in UK and elsewhere

Visitors watch the dolphins show while keeping one bench as safety distance at the Madrid Zoo Aquarium Park on August 25, 2020, in Madrid, Spain. Miguel Pereira | Getty Images News | Getty Images There is cause for cautious optimism in some European countries battling the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, as the rate… Read More »

Will Protests Spark a Second Viral Wave?

Mass protests against police brutality that have brought thousands of people out of their homes and onto the streets in cities across America are raising the specter of new coronavirus outbreaks, prompting political leaders, physicians and public health experts to warn that the crowds could cause a surge in cases. While many political leaders affirmed… Read More »