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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on August 22, 2025, 12:14:51 PM

Title: Maui Wildfire’s True Death Toll
Post by: rcjordan on August 22, 2025, 12:14:51 PM
#medsky


HoLee Crap! 367% higher excess death rate!


Two Years After Maui Burned, Researchers Reveal the Wildfire's True Death Toll


https://gizmodo.com/two-years-after-maui-burned-researchers-reveal-the-wildfires-true-death-toll-2000646402
Title: Re: Maui Wildfire’s True Death Toll
Post by: ergophobe on August 22, 2025, 08:00:45 PM
QuoteWhen clinics shut down and roads are blocked off, people can't refill their prescriptions or get dialysis treatments,

Obvious once you hear it, but shocking that secondary causes like this result in the majority of the deaths.
Title: Re: Maui Wildfire’s True Death Toll
Post by: rcjordan on August 22, 2025, 08:11:54 PM
>dialysis

Yeah, remember the big TX freeze a few years ago?  A bunch of dialysis patients died.  Same for assorted Caribbean island residents after a hurricane goes through.