Alejandra Borunda
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325 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 4 Sep
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Yes, we have Nate.
And I can say that I have never been more grateful to have a heat pump that cools our house.
Yeah.
And as I've been reporting on it for the last couple of years, I noticed this problem.
We as a country and as a world.
aren't keeping accurate track of how many people are getting sick or dying from heat.
And that means that it's been really hard to get people to care in a meaningful way and like do anything about it.
Yeah, I really did.
And I wanna be clear, a low estimate is not really the CDC's fault.
The way that we count and track causes of death in this country vary from state to state and even county to county.
And CDC is kind of compiling all of those numbers.
So the problem stems from somewhere deeper.
This is just really hard to do.
Yes.
This was a huge, probably slightly overambitious project, and it took a couple of years.
And I really could not have done it without partnering with epidemiologist Quinn Adams at Boston University.
And together we found that we as a country are under counting the number of people that die from heat and heat related issues by a factor of about five.
Yeah, our modeling suggests that it's something like 9,000 people that are dying from heat each year.
And even that might still be an underestimate.
And how some of those places are trying to do better to save lives.
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