☂Health systems

search and recovery on loaded slopes, shelter staging before a landfall, and dust with near-zero visibility

The health load today is trauma, displacement and air. In eastern Japan it is search and recovery in landslide zones with at least 4 dead and about 6 missing, plus the ordinary secondary load of a large advisory population returning home. On the Odisha coast it is shelter staging before Sep 23 — the point at which a cyclone shelter becomes a public-health facility as much as a refuge. In Saudi Arabia's south-west the red run brings blowing dust with near-zero visibility, which is a respiratory presentation as much as a road-safety one. Nigeria's 15-state advisory carries the water-borne disease risk that follows riverine flooding, with more than 4,500 schools flagged. And Nepal's ledger, carried at its Sep-18 vintage, is a reminder that the response phase outlasts the weather by weeks. (Handled with care.)

carried on 33 of the last 68 editions — since Jul 20, the 10 most recent shown.