NYU GPH Journal of Public Health Disasters
A student-led journal driven by the latest research in public health disaster preparedness and management.
Despite a two year-long drought, two feet of rain from atmospheric rivers broke daily rainfall records and put out the Dixie and Caldor Fires. Although this caused momentary major power outages and flash floods, the risks associated with the fires are diminished considerably, giving the incident teams a well-deserved break.
Continue reading “Rare heavy rains put out the two largest fires in Californian history.”Many countries have abandoned the zero-COVID policy after the emergence of the delta variant, one country is still holding on despite criticisms of unsustainability, costliness, and diminished benefits.
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This report builds on the fact that people who are previously infected will develop immunity towards COVID-19. By comparing hospitalization between fully vaccinated adults with no documentation of previous infection and unvaccinated adults with a history of a previous infection, the multistate analysis reports differing results to previous studies published on the subject.
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See how a few for-profit companies are bringing style to disaster preparedness kits here.
Watch the discussion and learn how decisions are made here.
Introductions of panel members start at 8:55
Dr. Doran Fink presents the topics for discussion at 26:30
The presentations of the meeting:
The CDC offer a 3-month training opportunity for international government employees twice a year. Their requirements are that candidates:
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A news brief published by nature reports that Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca have initiated preparedness plans for an escape variant. Although the current vaccines work effectively against all the variants, should a variant vaccine be developed ahead of time?
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A recent article looks at the relationship between the ENSO phenomenon and the increasing rates of under-5 malnutrition. It discusses the role it may have on food security, and the implication of the additional 6 million children who are classified as underweight during the event in 2015.
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UN parties have submitted their nationally determined contributions (NDC’s) ahead of the COP26, and the Emissions Gap Report supports the findings of the UNFCCC’s NDC Synthesis Report that the aggregated effect is insufficient on the global-scale . Countries accounting for 32% of global emissions have NDCs that will result in lower emissions by 2030 from their previously submitted NDCs, the rest of the countries either do not promise a change or have not submitted sufficient detail to compare.
From the G20 countries, six have pledged to enhance mitigation and reduce emissions by t 2.1 GtCO2e compared to previous NDCs, two will increase by 0.3 GtCO2e, three have informally pledged a reduction by 1.2 GtCO2e, and 3 have not yet submitted pledges. Collectively, the G20 are not on track to reach zero net emissions by 2030.
Conversely, 50 parties have pledged a long term plan to reach net zero by 2050 but there are large gaps and ambiguities in the plans.
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A critical lens on zero net emissions indicates that the legal loopholes have allowed increased fossil fuel production without compromising the obligations governments have to the Paris agreement.
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