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> What would evacuation deaths even be? I think some deaths occurred when evacuating hospital patients.
by sampo 4y ago
> What would evacuation deaths even be?
I think some deaths occurred when evacuating hospital patients.
- BurningFrog 4y ago1600 people is an enormous number of deaths. It would have been reported. I've followed Fukushima news since it happened, and never heard of this before.
- LorenPechtel 4y ago1,600 seems a little high, my memory was about half of that. 100% due to the evacuation, not the reactor. It's just politically inconvenient deaths tend to get labeled something else, often the underlying condition that was exacerbated by whatever the issue da jour is. I've never seen a breakdown of exactly what caused the evacuation deaths but when you go shipping a bunch of frail patients around in a total mess you should *expect* deaths.