Center for Public Integrity: Climate Change Is Killing Americans. Health Departments Aren't Equipped to Respond
June 16, 2020
June 16, 2020
PHOENIX, Arizona, June 16 -- The Center for Public Integrity issued the following news:
Charlie Rhodes lived alone on a tree-sparse street with sunburned lawns just outside this Arizona city. At 61, the Army veteran's main connection to the world was Facebook; often, he posted several times a day. But as a heat wave blanketed the region in June 2016 -- raising temperatures among the highest ever recorded -- his posts stopped. Three weeks later, a pile of unopened mail outside his do . . .
Charlie Rhodes lived alone on a tree-sparse street with sunburned lawns just outside this Arizona city. At 61, the Army veteran's main connection to the world was Facebook; often, he posted several times a day. But as a heat wave blanketed the region in June 2016 -- raising temperatures among the highest ever recorded -- his posts stopped. Three weeks later, a pile of unopened mail outside his do . . .