The U.S. could soon be paying an additional $1 billion in healthcare expenses each summer due to forecasts of continuing waves of extreme heat in the near future, a new report finds.
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The U.S. could soon be paying an additional $1 billion in healthcare expenses each summer due to forecasts of continuing waves of extreme heat in the near future, a newThe additional cost in heat-related healthcare will stem from 235,000 visits to the emergency room and more than 56,000 additional hospital admissions across the country each summer, the research, conducted by Virginia Commonwealth University and the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, found.
Firefighter EMT William Dorsey and firefighter EMT Rodrigo Pineda treat a migrant woman suffering from heat exhaustion in the border community of Eagle Pass, Texas, June 26, 2023.An increase of prolonged periods of heat has coincided with the rise of incidences in heat-related illness, the report, which studied data from Virginia-based"The resulting increases in visits to physicians, visits to emergency departments, and admissions to hospitals will inflate U.S.
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