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I dont understand how this isnt bigger news?

Local emergency services were basically nonfunctioning for better part of the day along with the heat wave and various events, seems like a number of deaths (locally at least, specific to what I know for my mid sized US city) will be indirectly attributable to this.

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It's entirely possible (likely, even) that someone died from this, but it's hard to know with critically ill patients whether they would have survived without the added delays.

On aggregate it is. How many deaths over the average for these conditions did we see?

We are in the process of calculating this but need this 24H period to roll over so we can benchmark the numbers against a similar 24H period. Its hard to tell if the numbers we get back will even be reliable given a lot of the statistics back from today from what I can tell have been via emails or similar.

So what?

Give it like, a week before bothering to ask such questions...

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