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When it got to 35 C in Chicago in 1995, 739 souls were lost. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Chicago_heat_wave https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Chicag

• rdtwo 5y ago
  How does that compare with a week of covid in context?
  • dogsgobork 5y ago
    A quick search reveals that there have been about 15,000 deaths from covid in Cook County (The county Chicago is in, and makes up a large portion of). There's been about 110 weeks since the start of the pandemic, that averages out to about 136 deaths per week.
    • rdtwo 4y ago
      So probably comparable to weekly death during peak covid since it’s mostly low covid and then huge spikes
• jml7c5 4y ago
  Note that the wet-bulb temperature there was "just" 29 °C. The 33.1 °C reading is terrifying.