"Even if you're very susceptible - you have a lot of comorbidities - you may have many opportunities to not be impacted, not being hospitalized, not having to go to the ER, but if you live in a place that is quite remote that does not have access to a lot of social services or amenities, ... it may be more trouble," said Tarik Benmarhnia, a study author and climate change epidemiologist at UC San Diego.
The reasons are varied and complicated, according to the authors from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego and the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
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