Who Is Dying from COVID Now, and Why

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November 17, 2022

Health Care Who Is Dying from COVID Now, and Why Nearly three years into the pandemic, COVID's mortality burden is growing in certain groups of people By Melody Schreiber

Climate Change Even Weak Hurricanes Are Getting Stronger as the Climate Warms Data collected by thousands of scientific instruments scattered across the world's oceans show that weak tropical cyclones are intensifying, not just stronger ones By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Epidemiology Why Did Flu Season Start So Early This Year? Reduced population immunity resulting from COVID precautions, and a phenomenon called viral interference, may have influenced this flu season's early start By Mariana Lenharo

Public Health How Can the World Prepare for the Next Pandemic? The COVID pandemic is not over, but countries must start to prepare for the next one to avoid a similar or even worse outcome By Richard Hodson

Climate Change Climate Aid Is Lacking for Poor Countries That Burn Few Fossil Fuels New funding programs announced at COP27 are helping poor countries transition away from fossil fuels, but the money isn't going to places without energy By Jean Chemnick,E&E News

Space Exploration Artemis I Launches U.S.'s Long-Awaited Return to the Moon The first flight test of the world's most powerful rocket will send an uncrewed spacecraft to lunar orbit and back By Nadia Drake

Policy Political Leaders Must Act Now to Thwart the Next Pandemic To make sure that COVID is the last pandemic of such devastation, political leaders must change their mindset and take these actions By Joanne Liu,Helen Clark,Michel Kazatchkine

Astronomy Invisible Numbers Are the Most Beautiful Part of Every 'Space' Image We are drawn to breathtaking images of the heavens, but there is beauty in the numbers those images hold By Fabio Pacucci

Climate Change Egypt's Climate Scientists Hope for 'Actions, Not Just Words' at COP27 Four Egyptian researchers spoke about how they're contributing to the fight against climate change as their country hosts the COP27 global climate summit By Miryam Naddaf,Nature magazine

Diversity The Feminist Test We Keep Failing: Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 3 Bonus Episode There's a test that we at Lost Women of Science seem to fail again and again: the Finkbeiner Test.  By Katie Hafner,Carol Sutton Lewis,The Lost Women of Science Initiative

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