Hurricanes and other tropical cyclones linked to rising U.S. death toll from several major causes
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In recent decades, hurricane Death rates from other tropical cyclones and several other major causes in the United States increased by as much as 33.4 percent in the following months.
Here are the findings from the research Columbia University Mailman School of Public HealthColorado State University, Imperial College London, and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, published in JAMA.
The study exemplifies how far-reaching and diverse the hidden costs to life of climate-related disasters and climate change can be.
A large study spanning decades across the United States to date has seen serious knowledge gaps in cause-specific tropical cyclone mortality risk.
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