Collected Item: “A Summer of Pathogens and Dust: Saharan Dust Sweeps Through Kansas”
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A Summer of Pathogens and Dust: Saharan Dust Sweeps Kansas
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Amidst COVID-19's rising case numbers throughout the state, a massive plume of dust from the Sahara Desert swept across the Atlantic, the American South, and into the Great Plains, as seen in the gray-brownish haze in these photographs. The dust plume's arrival, while not an uncommon meteorological event, nevertheless prompted the Kansas Department of Health and the Environment to issue an air quality warning for vulnerable people, as it struggled to grapple with Kansas's growing COVID case load.
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Aaron Peterka
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2020-06-28