The number of people who ide, compared with what might normally be expected, was 16 % higher. That amounts to an additional three thousand deaths. A similar pattern of mortality has been observed in other parts of europe too. Do we know the heat wave is causing this? It's unusual for medical professionals to state on the death certificate that heat was an effect. What we do observe is that when the temperature increases, the number of deaths tend to increase too.
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