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Weather Alert

...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON CDT /1 PM EDT/ SATURDAY
TO 7 PM CDT /8 PM EDT/ TUESDAY...

* WHAT...Heat index values 100 to 109 expected.

* WHERE...All of southern Illinois, southwest Indiana, western
Kentucky, and southeast Missouri.

* WHEN...From noon CDT /1 PM EDT/ Saturday to 7 PM CDT /8 PM EDT/
Tuesday.

* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The first prolonged stretch of heat and
humidity of the season will amplify health impacts. Health impacts
will build with each successive day in the heat and humidity.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of
the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors.

Take extra precautions when outside. Wear lightweight and loose
fitting clothing. Try to limit strenuous activities to early morning
or evening. Take action when you see symptoms of heat exhaustion and
heat stroke.

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COVID has killed more Americans than the 1918-19 flu � 675,000, by Johns Hopkins� count

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By Kenzie Dillow

(AP/CNN) -- COVID-19 has now killed more Americans than the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did -- approximately 675,000.

For now, the pandemic still has the United States and other parts of the world in its jaws. U.S. deaths are running at over 1,900 a day on average, and the country's overall toll has now reached 675,446, according to Johns Hopkins.

That surpasses the estimated US death toll.

for more data from Johns Hopkins.

The US population is now triple what it was in 1918. So while the Covid-19 death toll may be higher, the 1918 flu pandemic apparently killed a higher proportion of Americans, according to epidemiologist Stephen Kissler of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

 Also, back in 1918, , the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.

(AP) � COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did -- approximately 675,000.

And like the worldwide scourge of a century ago, the coronavirus may never entirely disappear. Instead, scientists hope the virus that causes COVID-19 becomes a mild seasonal bug as human immunity strengthens through vaccination and repeated infection.

For now, the pandemic still has the United States and other parts of the world in its jaws. U.S. deaths are running at over 1,900 a day on average, and the country's overall toll has topped 673,000.

The 1918-19 influenza pandemic killed 675,000 people in the U.S. when it had a population one-third the size of what it is today.

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