France recorded at least 5,700 more deaths than usual during a historic heatwave last month, the public health agency said Wednesday, sharply increasing its estimates of the feared toll from record-shattering temperatures.
Public Health France said regions hit by the heat from June 17 to July 2 recorded 21,674 deaths from all causes. But without a heatwave, those same regions would have been expected to have seen far fewer deaths, or 15,910, based on statistical modeling using data from previous years, it said.
The difference between expected and actual deaths — a total of 5,764 — are therefore considered to be “excess” deaths during the heatwave, the agency said.
It said the excess mortality, with 36% more deaths that would normally have been expected, was the highest from any heatwave since 2003. A historic heatwave that year caused an estimated 15,000 deaths in France.
France registered its hottest-ever days on June 24 and June 25 this year — with a national average of 30 C (86 F) — as well as record heat at night and peak temperatures that soared well above 40 C (104 F) in many places.
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Just over half of the unexpected deaths occurred during and in the immediate wake of that hottest period, over three days from June 25 to June 27, the public health agency said.
The Paris region appears to have been hardest hit, recording 1,999 unexpected deaths — around 80% more than would otherwise have been expected without a heatwave.
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Nearly half of the more than 21,600 people who died passed away in hospitals. About a third died at home and the rest were mostly deaths in care homes for older people, the agency said.
STAY THE F/ K INSIDE ! U ID IO TS !!! NOT ROCKET SCIENCE HERE
France should start to embrace this new technology that we use called “air conditioning”.
humans created this mess because they cant stop breeding, 5700 is really nothing considering Globally, approximately 4.2 to 4.3 humans are born every second. This breaks down to about 250 to 260 births per minute, over 15,000 per hour, and roughly 132 to 135 million babies born each year worldwide .so this mean the world is NOT going to have a shortage of people
Yawn.It’s 41c in BC and no one has kacked