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If you don't count it, you can't work to prevent it. But #HeatDeaths are notoriously hard to count.

"#Heat is not commonly mentioned on #DeathCertificates because heat *alone* is rarely the main thing that kills people.

[In Maricopa County] they coined the term "environmental heat exposure" to encapsulate heat related factors that contributed to someone's death without necessarily being the primary driver."

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/30/nx-s1-4854224/death-heat-arizona-climate-change-medical-examiner