The Olympics are planned for the same stretch of days as a catastrophic 2003 heat wave. Continued global warming has only increased the odds of another heat wave.

Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.

UW Medicine doctors and University of Washington engineers are on a mission to provide answers by developing a smartphone app designed to distinguish COVID-19 coughs, for instance, from other respiratory illnesses. Dr. Thomas Hawn, adjunct professor of global health and of laboratory medicine and pathology, is mentioned.

Ancient DNA recovered from Brazilian remains shows that treponemal diseases originated some 10,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Sheila Lukehart, professor emeritus of global health and medicine in the UW School of Medicine, is quoted.

On Nov. 14, the Biden Administration released the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA) detailing how climate change is affecting the United States and how institutions and communities are responding. The report, mandated every four years, is written by researchers and federal agencies to condense the most recent climate data and break the effects down by 10 regions.