Climate Change Will Increase Frequency And Intensity Of Diseases Like Novel Coronavirus
By Steve BynumClimate Change Will Increase Frequency And Intensity Of Diseases Like Novel Coronavirus
By Steve Bynum
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The Center for Disease Control’s Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE) Framework, studies the short and long-term impacts of climate change on our health.
Reset Sustainability Contributor, Karen Weigert, and Elena Grossman from BRACE-Illinois, discuss climate change as a “threat multiplier” that in the future will increase the frequency and intensity of diseases, like Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).
GUESTS: Karen Weigert, vice president at Chicago-based clean energy innovation nonprofitSlipstream and former chief sustainability officer for the City of Chicago.
Elena Grossman, BRACE-Illinois program director, research specialist in environmental and occupational health sciences at University of Illinois at Chicago