Temperatures barely climbed into the 90s and only for a couple of days. But the discovery of the bodies of three women inside a Chicago senior housing facility this month left the city looking for answers.
start calling the elderly and frail, and turn city buildings into 24-hour cooling centers when temperatures become oppressive.
Wellenius said statistics show that while well over 80% of homes in cities such as Dallas and Phoenix have air conditioning, the percentage is far lower in cities like Boston and New York. In a study published in 2020, Wellenius and other researchers estimated that nationwide about 5,600 deaths a year could be attributed to high heat — eight times more than the 700 heat-related deaths that are study found were officially reported each year.
In the county that includes Chicago, for example, the medical examiner's office reported two heat-related deaths last year, and seven the year before.
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