Death certificates don’t always reflect the role that extreme heat played in ending a person’s life even when it seems obvious it was a factor.
This undated photo provided by Carla Gates shows Gates and her husband, Dallas mail carrier Eugene Gates Jr. On June 20, 2023, Eugene Gates collapsed on a homeowners property when he was making deliveries on a suffocating hot day and later died at a hospital. – Postal worker Eugene Gates Jr. was delivering mail in the suffocating Dallas heat this summer when he collapsed in a homeowner's yard and was taken to a hospital, where he died.
With a better count, she said, “you can start developing much better heat wave early warning systems and target people who are at higher risk and make sure that they’re aware of these risks.” Many experts say a standard decades-old method known as counting excess deaths could better show how extreme heat harms people.
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Death Valley visitors drawn to the hottest spot on Earth during ongoing US heat waveMost visitors to Death Valley National Park only make it a short distance to any site at the hottest and driest place on Earth before returning to the sanctuary of an air-conditioned vehicle
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Death Valley visitors drawn to the hottest spot on Earth during ongoing US heat waveMost visitors to Death Valley National Park only make it a short distance to any site at the hottest and driest place on Earth before returning to the sanctuary of an air-conditioned vehicle.
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Death Valley visitors drawn to the hottest spot on Earth during ongoing US heat waveMost visitors at this time of year make it only a short distance to any site in the park — which bills itself as the lowest, hottest and driest place on Earth — before returning to the sanctuary of…
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Death Valley visitors drawn to the hottest spot on Earth during ongoing heat waveMost visitors this time of year make it only a short distance to any site in the park before returning to the sanctuary of an air-conditioned vehicle.
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