 It made landfall earlier on this morning along Karaku Island as a 150-mile-per-hour Category 4 hurricane continues to bring a life-threatening storm surge along with catastrophic hurricane-force winds as it's moving west-northwest at 20 miles per hour. Barrel is not a threat right now to the U.S. Just in time for summer, cases of COVID are spreading across the country. Dr. William Schaffner is an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt.