Even when it seems obvious that extreme heat was a factor, death certificates don’t always reflect the role it played. Experts say a mishmash of ways more than 3,000 counties calculate heat deaths means we don’t really know how many people die in the U.S. each year because of high temperatures in an ever warming world

Many experts say a standard decades-old method known as counting excess deaths could better show how extreme heat harms people

https://apnews.com/article/counting-extreme-heat-deaths-7125ad9a5289625bd9ca312945996399

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