The Washington Post: “Historic Pacific Northwest heatwave killed hundreds of people in the US and Canada in the past week,” “Oregon heatwave victims are older, lived alone, had no air conditioning.”
Twitter: @NWS, July 29, 2021.
Erika Moseson, MD, Intensive Care Pulmonologist, Portland and Gresham, OR.
Climate Central: “Heat and Hospital Admissions: Regional Heat Index Area for Peak Hospital Admissions.”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Assessment of extreme heat and hospital stays to inform early warning systems. “
Central climate.
Kristie L. Ebi, Professor, Center for Health and the Global Environment, University of Washington, Seattle.
NBC News: “As extreme heat becomes more prevalent, ambulance doctors resort to body bags to save lives.”
US Census Bureau.
Jeremy Hoffman, Senior Scientist, Science Museum of Virginia, Richmond.
Climate: “The Effects of Historical Housing Policy on Residents’ Exposure to Inner-City Heat: A Study of 108 Urban Areas.”
National Weather Service: “Tips and resources on heat safety”.
Linda McCauley, PhD, nurse; Dean of the School of Nursing at Emory University, Atlanta.
WGXA: “Football practice where the teenager stopped responding and then died started because of the heat indoors.”
World Weather Attribution: “Rapid attribution analysis of the extraordinary heat wave on the Pacific coast of the USA and Canada in June 2021.”
Climatology: “The generation of heat and moisture is too strong for human tolerance.”
NOAA.
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