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...It stores away neatly, is easily whisked out in moments of mild catastrophe, and does the kind of pro job you’d pay someone to do for you. Bissell Spotclean Hydrosteam, £299.99 @rhodri...
...The last time Scott Z Burns wrote a piece of speculative fiction about a global catastrophe, his vision proved prophetic....
...Sky/HBO’s 2019 series Chernobyl, however, was a superb balance of intimate human drama and horrifying environmental catastrophe....
...UK business groups have urged the government to address shortages of Covid testing kits....
...But much will depend on Biden’s attitude towards the Turkish leader after their nations narrowly avoided a diplomatic catastrophe....
...Threats of disruption from bad weather or natural or human-made catastrophes such as the Fukushima earthquake and nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 long predate Covid....
...machine-learning technology that can monitor weather and tilt solar panels to deflect hailstones or protect against snow, high winds and hurricanes, said California-based Nextracker, the vendor of the kit...
...Individual donors and philanthropists are supporting important programmes to develop rapid diagnostic kits and vaccines, and to supply equipment....
...They urgently need to buy testing kits, ventilators and protective clothing for healthcare workers....
...Nor are there many easy answers to the general problem of preparing for predictable catastrophes....
...For cancer, there are worrying signs that a catastrophe is heading our way....
...But as the scale of Britain’s elderly care catastrophe emerges, it is clear that the sector spent far too long simply struggling to be heard....
...The clamour for widespread testing is loud, and the unavailability of test kits harshly criticised....
...There are more test kits available than there were at the start of the crisis — more than 4m people are being tested a week — but laboratories are struggling to keep up with demand....
...In the early days of the outbreak, a lack of test kits meant that some cases may have gone undetected....
...One North Korean defector who has first-hand experience of the country’s healthcare system said supplies of basic preventive kits with masks and sanitiser were “very short”....
...The Black Death was an absolute catastrophe. Populations in Europe and the Middle East were devastated. Perhaps a third or a half of all people died....
...The panic-buying is a reaction to this feeling of incipient catastrophe. A few mornings ago, I visited the local shops....
...(FT) How to save the human race from extinction Those with a penchant for worrying about catastrophe have plenty to be going on about: if coronavirus doesn’t kill us, climate or AI could....
...There is no guarantee that a crisis always brings fresh ideas; sometimes a catastrophe is just a catastrophe....
...Several European countries rejected Chinese testing kits and protective equipment as substandard....
...We also need a global effort to produce and distribute medical equipment, most notably testing kits and respiratory machines....
...PCMag summarises the other finalists at CES, including the Harry Potter Kano Coding Kit and Owl Car Cam, a dash cam with dual-facing HD cameras that can track and record what happens in a crash or even a...
...The tests carry disclaimers that insist that the kits are not diagnostics. Many consumers will see impending catastrophe but not the multiple caveats — and will worry for their future....
...But there are a number of rules of thumb that can help smooth a home’s construction — or prevent an oversight from turning into a catastrophe....
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