Last summer, emergency room visits for heat-related illnesses reached an all-time high, and if May is any indication, this year could be worse. Florida ranked second in the U.S. for 911 calls related to heat exhaustion, heat stroke, and dangerous sunburn, emphasizing the critical impact of rising temperatures on public health.
Federal health agencies stress the importance of heat/health risk awareness, planning outdoor activities carefully, and employers using new dashboards to protect outside workers from heat-related illnesses during the upcoming hotter summer months.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched a heat and health tracker showing daily heat illness risk by ZIP code, utilizing historical data and current conditions to assess community resilience and individual risk.
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