{"id":109724,"date":"2024-10-03T01:13:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T18:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109724"},"modified":"2024-10-03T01:13:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T18:13:46","slug":"hurricanes-kill-thousands-more-than-official-counts-study-finds-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109724","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes kill thousands more than official counts, study finds : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"storytext\">\n<div id=\"resg-s1-25837\" class=\"bucketwrap image large\">\n<div class=\"imagewrap has-source-dimensions\" data-crop-type=\"\" style=\"&#10;        --source-width: 7170;&#10;        --source-height: 4785;&#10;    \">\n        <picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/7170x4785+0+0\/resize\/1100\/quality\/85\/format\/webp\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F87%2F10%2Fabff0f134a95b02641d9c42779d3%2Fgettyimages-2174061526.jpg\" class=\"img\" type=\"image\/webp\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/7170x4785+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F87%2F10%2Fabff0f134a95b02641d9c42779d3%2Fgettyimages-2174061526.jpg\" data-format=\"webp\"\/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/7170x4785+0+0\/resize\/1100\/quality\/85\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F87%2F10%2Fabff0f134a95b02641d9c42779d3%2Fgettyimages-2174061526.jpg\" class=\"img\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/7170x4785+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F87%2F10%2Fabff0f134a95b02641d9c42779d3%2Fgettyimages-2174061526.jpg\" data-format=\"jpeg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/7170x4785+0+0\/resize\/1100\/quality\/85\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F87%2F10%2Fabff0f134a95b02641d9c42779d3%2Fgettyimages-2174061526.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA - SEPTEMBER 27: A group of friends canoed the South Fork New River in Boone, North Carolina, looking at the destruction from Hurricane Helene. The death toll from the storm is already over 100 people, but the true number will likely be many times that, according to a new study.\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/7170x4785+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F87%2F10%2Fabff0f134a95b02641d9c42779d3%2Fgettyimages-2174061526.jpg\" data-format=\"jpeg\"\/>\n        <\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit-caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-wrap\">\n<div class=\"caption\" aria-label=\"Image caption\">\n<p>\n                BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA &#8211; SEPTEMBER 27: A group of friends canoed the South Fork New River in Boone, North Carolina, looking at the destructions from Hurricane Helene. The death toll from the storm is already over 100 people, but the true number will likely be many times that, according to a new study.<br \/>\n                <b class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                    Melissa Sue Gerrits\/Getty Images\/Getty Images North America<\/p>\n<p>                <\/b><br \/>\n                <b class=\"hide-caption\"><b>hide caption<\/b><\/b>\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <b class=\"toggle-caption\"><b>toggle caption<\/b><\/b>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <span class=\"credit\" aria-label=\"Image credit\"><\/p>\n<p>        Melissa Sue Gerrits\/Getty Images\/Getty Images North America<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hurricane Helene ripped up from Florida to the Carolinas last week, killing more than 100 people and leaving devastation in its wake that will take weeks or months even to assess.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-07945-5\">new study <\/a>published in Nature suggests its impacts will be even greater. On average over the past nearly 100 years, a tropical cyclone hitting the U.S. is associated with somewhere between 7,000 to 11,000 deaths. Helene, though, was more powerful than the average; its likelihood and rainfall intensity were increased by human-caused climate change.<\/p>\n<p>When storms are active, people die, for instance, when floods rip through neighborhoods, or when trees fall on them. But the new study shows that losses continue for months, and can last as long as 15 years, after the storm passes taxing people\u2019s health and economic well-being, contributing to thousands of premature deaths. The total impact, the study suggests, adds up to more than 3.5 million people since 1930, more than the total number of deaths from motor vehicle accidents over the same period of time and as much as 5% of the U.S.\u2019s total deaths.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-backstage-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap backstage\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The analysis underscores that \u201ctropical cyclones and hurricanes are a much greater public health burden than we previously thought,\u201d says Rachel Young, an environmental economist at the University of California, Berkeley and author of the paper.<\/p>\n<p>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, counts the number of deaths directly attributed to hurricanes and tropical cyclones each year: out of the 501 storms that the study looked at, the official numbers say an average of 24 people die after each storm. But the new analysis suggests the toll is some 300 times higher than the official numbers.<\/p>\n<p>It makes clear, Young says, that \u201cwe should be rethinking how we are responding and the kinds of programs and policies we&#8217;re putting into place after these events,\u201d\u2014 like in the wake of Helene, a storm that is already far outside the average. The official count has already exceeded 130 people, and the number is climbing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uncovering the true toll<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new accounting fits with other recent analyses that suggest the true impact of climate-worsened disasters, from hurricanes to heat waves to wildfires, is orders of magnitude larger than the federal government reports. If these larger estimates are taken into account, the human and economic costs of human-driven climate change balloon, suggesting a problem that is much larger than most federal officials acknowledge.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-secondary-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap secondary\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>This study, and others like it, \u201ccast in sharp relief\u201d the climate impacts on human life in the U.S., says Robbie Parks, an environmental health expert at Columbia University. He led a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/full\/10.1126\/sciadv.adg6633\"><u>previous study<\/u><\/a> that found an estimated 18,000 uncounted deaths in the months following hurricane landfalls from 1988 to 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The new analysis traces out the even-longer term ripples. The researchers looked at tropical cyclones that made landfall in the U.S. between 1930 and 2018. They gathered data on all deaths in the country for that same time period, and looked at the changes in deaths reported in counties before and a full 20 years after a serious storm hit. They accounted for some counties that were hit by another storm while the impacts of the first were still playing out. Researchers also looked at other factors that changed over time, like changes in population, or the time of year.<\/p>\n<p>The magnitude of the impacts surprised even the researchers. \u201cWe spent many, many years trying to make sure that what we were measuring wasn&#8217;t some sort of anomaly in the data, wasn&#8217;t some kind of fluke, that it was really the response from these hurricanes,\u201d says Young. \u201cWe did every kind of test you could possibly imagine. We thought about every kind of factor that could be driving these results.\u201d But the data spoke for itself, she says.<\/p>\n<p>Unexpected deaths jump quickly after a storm hits, then keep rising for six years after the impact. They don\u2019t go back to the previous death rate until 15 years afterward.<\/p>\n<p>When the researchers looked more closely, they saw that Black Americans were more than three times as likely to die in the years following the storm than white Americans. <\/p>\n<p>They also found heightened risks for people over 65. But so were infants\u2014even ones that weren\u2019t yet in utero, or born, at the time of the storm. The study found their death rates were 16 times higher than for toddlers, teens, and adults under 65. The study didn\u2019t identify why\u2014but Young thinks it could be related to the long-term, emotional and economic effects on mothers, an insidious tail of pain left behind by a hurricane.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-third-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap third\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>How the harms happen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The effects linger, Parks explains, because the harms linger. After a hurricane, people often have to deal with destroyed homes. They spend their savings to move, or repair, or simply survive after a disaster. Or they move away, losing support networks and leaving others behind without one. And local economies reshuffle, so people lose their jobs and deal with new economic burdens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThink about a place which has infrastructure, and suddenly does not\u2014and then you have all these people living without essential infrastructure. You can imagine the slow creep of health effects occurs over time,\u201d says Parks.<\/p>\n<p>The social and economic disruption also impacts health care. Doctor and researcher Arnab Ghosh of the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University treated patients in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria in 2017 and in New York City after Hurricane Sandy in 2012. His patients struggled with the fallout for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is this rippling effect throughout the fabric of society after these events happen,\u201d Ghosh says. \u201cThis is where the social gradients, the fault lines that exist in our society, play a role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After storms, diabetic patients suffer from interrupted insulin supply. Others can\u2019t access dialysis, or move far from their care teams, losing crucial continuity. Some deal with mental health issues worsened by storm-related fallout; others find their cardiovascular problems exacerbated by stress or poor living conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the problems, Ghosh says, were not easily traced directly back to the storm, without careful probing and recording by doctors and nurses. It was often even difficult for a patient to see or understand the connection, he says. So Ghosh sees exactly how the <em>direct<\/em> count of health problems and even deaths related to the hurricane could\u2014easily\u2014be underestimated.<\/p>\n<p>And, Ghosh says, it&#8217;s a critical context for medical professionals like him to consider as they treat patients after the disasters\u2014to know that they need to keep looking for connections to the storm, for months and years after.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"ad-overflow-3-wrap\" class=\"ad-wrap overflow\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Now we know. What next?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After Hurricane Maria hit, the Puerto Rican government initially estimated the death toll of the storm at 64. Puerto Ricans insisted that was a gross underestimate. Further analyses would put the number of lives lost in the thousands.<\/p>\n<p>Roberto Rivera, a statistician at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayag\u00fcez, knows the impact of a hurricane can persist. \u201cI&#8217;m still in Puerto Rico and all you have to do is drive around a little bit and you see the light poles, all tilted,\u201d he says\u2014and if the infrastructure is still in flux, so must be people\u2019s lives and health.<\/p>\n<p>An accurate count, Rivera says, is fodder to say to government leaders \u201clook, we need to enhance the emergency policy. There are people who are dying unnecessarily.\u201d But he says, the statistical assessments stretching out so many years are challenging, and the uncertainty in the estimate ranges in this new analysis are too high.<\/p>\n<p>Helene was a more intense storm than most Climate change intensified its destructive rainfall, adding <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/14oq65lavZ7ho3-gdxE-tutDEcsxSHfUj\/view\"><u>an extra 50%<\/u><\/a> to the rain that fell in Georgia, NC, and beyond. Scientists expect hurricanes to continue intensifying rapidly and carrying more rainfall island as the planet heats up further.<\/p>\n<p>The full picture of Helene\u2019s damage will not be filled in for years, says Young. But whatever the official statistics say, she says, the true impact is almost certainly higher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to be giving people a lot of attention even months and years after, making sure that they&#8217;re getting their insurance payouts on time, making sure that they&#8217;re being made whole and that they can recover and they&#8217;re not being forgotten about just because the hurricane was a month ago,\u201d Young says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/10\/02\/nx-s1-5131305\/hurricanes-contribute-to-thousands-of-deaths-each-year-in-the-u-s-many-times-the-reported-number\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA &#8211; SEPTEMBER 27: A group of friends canoed the South Fork New River in Boone, North Carolina, looking at the destructions from Hurricane Helene. 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