Plastic-filled homes are making the LA fires burn hotter, tear through houses faster, and is making the smoke more toxic—likely producing gases that N95s can't filter. Gift link:
“The experiment of whether H5 can ever be successful in human populations is happening before our eyes,” Seema Lakdawala, a flu virologist told @KatherineJWu. “And we are doing nothing to stop it.”
I spoke with a scientist who studied how Southern California's wildfire season will lengthen with climate change. For this year, "fire season" has lost all meaning. He was watching smoke rise from the Palisades fire from his house. Gift link: