Because of the dependence upon air conditioning, if the power went out in phoenix for five days, there would be the study estimated and they made the point that this was conservative 800,000 emergency room visits and over 13,000 deaths, which is difficult to bend your mind around. but it really proves or shows the point that air conditioning for all of its sort of comforts that it brings us, it s also like a sort of dem a close hanging over the heads of these very hot cities. i m also joined by msnbc medical contributor dr. vin gupta. vin, jeff you just heard him talk about this in those dreaded scenarios. hospitals wouldn t be equipped to handle it. hundreds of thousands of visits. we know heat-related deaths are rising, they were up 88% in 2022 compared to just 2000.
Look at these pictures. hospitals in vegas are prepping human ice immersion bags creating this new response protocol for the summer ahead but i wonder can we prepare enough? give us a sense of what this could mean for hospitals and public health, vin. chris, this is critical to point out and to talk about. these solutions aren t scaleable. the ice immersion techniques we re seeing in phoenix, seeing in places like las vegas as you pointed out, not scaleable. we can do it patient by patient maybe at the health system level, but the idea that we can this is a solution to what s happening in phoenix, it s not tenable. we re also seeing that there has been a 90% increase in heat-related deaths just in the last four years over what we saw at the turn of the century, coupled with now forecasts, chris, across the world, 370% increase we are forecasting in heat-related deaths by 2050. this is now something that we just have to contend with. there is no averting the worst of it.
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