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Rapid climate action is needed: comparing heat vs. COVID-19-related mortality
F. Batibeniz, SI. Seneviratne, S. Jha, A. Ribeiro, L. Suarez Gutierrez, CC. Raible, A. Malhotra, B. Armstrong, ML. Bell, E. Lavigne, A. Gasparrini, Y. Guo, M. Hashizume, P. Masselot, SP. da Silva, D. Royé, F. Sera, S. Tong, A. Urban, AM. Vicedo-Cabrera
Language English Country England, Great Britain
Document type Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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- MeSH
- COVID-19 * mortality epidemiology MeSH
- Climate Change * MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- SARS-CoV-2 * isolation & purification MeSH
- Cities MeSH
- Public Health MeSH
- Hot Temperature * MeSH
- Check Tag
- Humans MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't MeSH
- Geographicals
- Cities MeSH
The impacts of climate change on human health are often underestimated or perceived to be in a distant future. Here, we present the projected impacts of climate change in the context of COVID-19, a recent human health catastrophe. We compared projected heat mortality with COVID-19 deaths in 38 cities worldwide and found that in half of these cities, heat-related deaths could exceed annual COVID-19 deaths in less than ten years (at + 3.0 °C increase in global warming relative to preindustrial). In seven of these cities, heat mortality could exceed COVID-19 deaths in less than five years. Our results underscore the crucial need for climate action and for the integration of climate change into public health discourse and policy.
Biological Sciences Division Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland WA USA
Climate and Environmental Physics Physics Institute University of Bern Bern Switzerland
Climate Research Foundation Madrid Spain
Department of Epidemiology Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr Ricardo Jorge Lisbon Portugal
Department of Global Health Policy Graduate School of Medicine The University of Tokyo Tokyo Japan
Environmental Health Science and Research Bureau Health Canada Ottawa Canada
Faculty of Environmental Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Czech Republic
Faculty of Medicine School of Epidemiology and Public Health University of Ottawa Ottawa Canada
Institut Pierre Simon Laplace CNRS Paris France
Institute of Atmospheric Physics Czech Academy of Sciences Prague Czech Republic
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine University of Bern Bern Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research University of Bern Bern Switzerland
School of Public Health and Social Work Queensland University of Technology Brisbane Australia
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