4 ms·
Globally: About 4x more dying from cold than from warm weather. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00179-9/fulltext https://www
by tpmx 4y ago
Globally: About 4x more dying from cold than from warm weather.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00179-9/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... (March 2022)
Global mortality burden attributable to non-optimal temperatures
They report that 2.98% of deaths globally could be attributed to non-optimal temperatures in 2019; 2.37% of deaths from low temperatures and 0.63% of deaths from high temperatures.