Alejandra Borunda
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325 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 4 Sep
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And all that means that I honestly I don't think we're ever gonna have a perfectly accurate
number.
And that to me is why these sorts of statistical estimates like the ones that we did here.
are so important.
They help us see kind of a truth that is not simply the fact written down or not on a death certificate.
Great question, Nate.
Um, so basically what we did was some fancy modeling to calculate something called excess mortality.
And you might remember that term because it was similar to what public health officials were doing to estimate COVID deaths back in the middle of the pandemic.
And how that works is basically you figure out an estimate of how many people are expected to die in a place in any given week.
And then you see how many people actually died.
Mm-hmm.
And then our modeling figured out how much of that difference was attributable to heat.
Here's Quinn Adams.
She's our lead partner at this and she's explaining the process a bit more.
So basically we took into account things like where the deaths were, because heat hits differently for someone in like Massachusetts than it does for a Texan based on what their bodies are used to.
Yeah.
And people do acclimate to the heat in the place they live, like up to a point at least.
But I also really want to point out that like I think a lot of times we think that it has to be like extremely hot to hurt people, like a hundred, a hundred and ten.
And that's not true.
There's a lot of cases in which, you know, it can be eighty-five out and someone is going to have the same impacts.
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