[MCN] Science reviews impact of virus that "acts like no microbe humanity has ever seen."

[Lance Olsen]

Excerpts : As the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 surges past 2.2 million globally and deaths surpass 150,000, clinicians and pathologists are struggling to understand the damage wrought by the coronavirus as it tears through the body. They are realizing that although the lungs are ground zero, its reach can extend to many organs including the heart and blood vessels, kidneys, gut, and brain.

“[The disease] can attack almost anything in the body with devastating consequences,” says cardiologist Harlan Krumholz of Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital, who is leading multiple efforts to gather clinical data on COVID-19. “Its ferocity is breathtaking and humbling.”

Despite the more than 1000 papers now spilling into journals and onto preprint servers every week, a clear picture is elusive, as the virus acts like no microbe humanity has ever seen.

<<https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-rampage-through-body-brain-toes <https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-rampage-through-body-brain-toes>>>



++++++++ Hot, Dry and Windy Index  ++++++

Basic fire science is still fairly simple. 

If it’s hot, and dry, and you get a spark, you’ve got fire. 

If it’s hot, and dry, and windy, and you get a spark, you’ve got a fire that spreads far, and fast

The Hot-Dry-Windy Index (HDW) | Northwest Fire Science Consortium <http://nwfirescience.org/tools/hot-dry-windy-index-hdw>
nwfirescience.org/tools/hot-dry-windy-index-hdw <http://nwfirescience.org/tools/hot-dry-windy-index-hdw>
Oct 5, 2018 - A new fire-weather prediction tool based on the key atmospheric variables that affect wildland fire: temperature, moisture, and wind.

The hot-dry-windy index: A new fire weather index <https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/56562>
https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/56562 <https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/56562>
Aug 8, 2018 - We define a new fire weather index called the Hot-Dry-Windy Index (HDW). HDW uses the basic science of how the atmosphere can affect a ...

Hot-Dry-Windy Index - Northern Research Station - USDA Forest Service <https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/disturbance/fire/hdw/>
https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/disturbance/fire/hdw/ <https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/disturbance/fire/hdw/>
Feb 28, 2019 - In order to simplify the problem, we have defined a new fire weather index called the Hot-Dry-Windy Index (HDW) that can be used to assess ...

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The Hot-Dry-Windy Index - Southern Research Station - USDA <https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/ja/2018/ja_2018_goodrick_001.pdf>
https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/ja/2018/ja_2018_goodrick_001.pdf <https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/ja/2018/ja_2018_goodrick_001.pdf>
AF Srock - ‎2018 - ‎Cited by 2 <https://scholar.google.com/scholar?rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS737US737&um=1&ie=UTF-8&lr&cites=12763361008682718259> - ‎Related articles <https://scholar.google.com/scholar?rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS737US737&um=1&ie=UTF-8&lr&q=related:M9Sa1jaRILG-IM:scholar.google.com/>
Jul 19, 2018 - We define a new fire weather index called the Hot-Dry-Windy Index (HDW). ... HDW is defined and then compared with the Haines Index (HI) for four historical fires. The Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) is used to provide the meteorological data for calculating the indices.

Comparing the Haines Index with the Hot-Dry-Windy Index - Wildfire ... <https://wildfiretoday.com/2019/02/20/comparing-the-haines-index-with-the-hot-dry-windy-index/>
https://wildfiretoday.com/.../comparing-the-haines-index-with-the-hot-dry-windy-inde... <https://wildfiretoday.com/2019/02/20/comparing-the-haines-index-with-the-hot-dry-windy-index/>
Feb 20, 2019 - In a comment on the earlier post about the Hot-Dry-Windy Index (HDW), Brian Potter, a research meteorologist with the U.S. Forest Service, ..
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Development and application of a hot-dry-windy index (HDW ... <https://www.frames.gov/catalog/56291>
https://www.frames.gov/catalog/56291 <https://www.frames.gov/catalog/56291>
Aug 7, 2018 - In this paper, we describe and analyze a climatology of the Hot-Dry-Windy Index (HDW), with the goal of providing fire-weather forecasters with ...







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