Recent heat waves have sent hundreds of people to emergency rooms around New York City, The City reported.
Since May 1, more than 425 New Yorkers have gone to the ER for heat-related illnesses, The City said Tuesday.
The statistics put the city on pace to match 2018, when extremely high temperatures and humidity sent more than 739 people to the hospital — the most during the last five summers.
The city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reported a total of 64 people went to the ER on June 30, when the temperature reached 98 degrees, according to AccuWeather. That single-day number of patients was the third-highest in the last five years, The City said.
The heat index — what it feels like when the temperature is combined with humidity — on June 30 hit 103 degrees.
That day highlighted a four-day period (June 28-July 1) when Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a heat emergency. A total of 142 New Yorkers went to the emergency room with suspected heat-related maladies. No fatalities were reported among those patients.
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Extreme heat here in nyc?? Are they crazy? It’s only been 90 three times this summer! This is the coolest summer that I can recall in recent memory
Do you expect them to say that jabbed NYorkers are send to the hospital?
Well, DeBlasio, like Bl$$mberg before him, commanded the dumb gullible fools that they should set their air conditioners at 78 on the money saver feature. What an idiot. When it’s 98+ with humidity and you put an air conditioner on 78, it does nothing. Maybe that’s why people are ending up in the ER. You set your ac at 65 or lower. During a heatwave is not the time to be cheap and miserly. Is it worth dying over 6 cents?