As summer descends on the U.S., public health experts are warning that the coronavirus could make intense heat waves deadlier, adding to the devastating death toll the country has suffered.
Rupa Basu, chief of the air and climate epidemiological section for the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, said the virus’ effect could be amplified, in part, because it iswho are already the most susceptible to extreme heat. For older people and Americans with chronic medical conditions, “it’s like getting hit twice,” she said.
Middle-class Americans can still retreat into their air-conditioned homes and cars, but for low-income residents and seniors on tight budgets, staying home during the summer could be dangerous.by USC environmental engineering professor George Ban-Weiss and his team suggests that communities most vulnerable to extreme heat have some of the the lowest rates of air conditioning and the highest rates of poverty. In Compton, Inglewood and Lynwood, only about 40% of households have air conditioning.
David Hondula, a climatologist who studies the impact of heat on health at Arizona State University, said that another factor researchers are paying attention to is substance abuse. In Maricopa County, Ariz., which spent five days under an excessive heat warning, the coronavirus complicated efforts. Many of the public buildings that would normally be converted into shelters had been closed down, their staff self-isolating at home, limiting the number of cooling centers that could be opened to the public and placing more of the burden on charitable organizations and religious groups.
If only we could go to the beach and jump in the water! 🤨
Haha, people will die. People will always die. Our media is garbage.
We could be down to a single death a day. The fact that that single death would add to the death toll would cause the El Segundo Times to say Covid is getting worse. Technically true but fake in so many ways.
I don't understand what people think scientists have to gain by lying about covid data. Like, what would even be in it for them? You people should focus your anger on the fact that Congress just gave away trillions of your $$ to corporations that don't need it while stiffing you
who killed that Asian scientist in Pennsylvania ?
I like the beginning corona COULD worsen. Say some official. Very scientific. My take corona virus could not worsen some officials say. What is wrong with both these statements. I guess this is how reporting is today. No one gives data as to what the situtT
Just a constant stream of negative news. You guys sound almost hopeful when you write this stuff. Like your salivating at the chance of huge numbers of dead people. Ugh.
Could.. You could die in a car accident.. Fricken Fear Mongering needs to stop!
That’s the news. That’s where we’re at world and this city. It blows but it is what it is. It too shall pass.
Not if everyone in CA is sheltering in place
Do you fools have anything optimistic and/or positive to say? Asking......Geez never seen so much negativity and pessimistic crap from one account.