Surviving the heat dome

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🗓️ 29 June 2021

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Summary

What the heat wave in the Pacific Northwest has to do with climate change. A doctor trying to close the racial vaccine gap in Philadelphia. And tips to combat burnout.

A climate-change-fueled heat wave blanketed the Pacific Northwest. In some areas, temperatures passed 110 degrees. Sarah Kaplan reports on how people in cities such as Portland and Seattle grapple with extreme heat.

While at least 70 percent of Philadelphians have received at least one coronavirus vaccination, only 34 percent of Black Philadelphians have gotten a shot. Akilah Johnson on the doctors trying to close the racial vaccine gap.

The pandemic has blurred the boundaries between work and home life. Enter A Better Week, a Post newsletter. Tom Johnson explains how to create a better, more balanced workweek.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, it's Robert Samuels from the Washington Post.
0:10.2	Posts, Sarah Kaplan.
0:11.2	Hi, this is Elias Adi with the Washington Post.
0:14.5	This is Post Reports.
0:16.5	I'm routine powers.
0:20.5	It's Tuesday, June 29th.
0:25.7	Today, the heat wave overtaking the Northwest, why vaccination disparities persist in Philadelphia,
0:32.4	and how to have a better week.
0:38.1	What kind of temperatures are we seeing in the Pacific Northwest right now?
0:41.3	We are seeing absolutely bonkers temperatures in the Pacific Northwest.
0:50.3	Sarah Kaplan is a climate reporter for the Post.
0:52.9	She talked with producer Emma Talkov.
0:55.0	Basically, since Saturday, Portland has set a new all-time temperature record every day.
1:02.2	On Monday, it was 115 degrees here in Salem, the capital of Oregon.
1:07.8	It was 117 degrees, which happens to match the all-time record for Las Vegas.
1:14.4	These are temperatures that you would expect in the Southwest or in the Middle East.
1:18.6	These are not temperatures you expect in a really temperate, wet, cool place like the
1:24.0	Pacific Northwest.
1:25.8	The thing that's causing this heat wave is this huge heat dome.
1:30.2	That's a very tall mass of hot air that's sitting on top of the region.
1:36.6	It's so big and so self-reinforcing that it redirects weather systems around it, and
1:43.0	it's very difficult to dissipate.
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