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Chicago When It Sizzles
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Why Did People Die of the Heat Wave?
Bodies began to pile up at the cook county morgue. Politicians complained that medics were playing politics and exaggerating the crisis. Did people die of the heat, or just in the heat? And some commentators observed that those who had died, generally elderly, and all so often black and poor, would have died soon an the media were making a fuss about nothing. But other disasters of the same era received far more coverage. For example, the loma preate earthquake which in 19 89 killed 69 people in san francisco and oakland. The eventual death tole in chicago was 739.
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