Publication: L.A. Times

UCLA Expert: David Eisenman: Professor-in-Residence, Department of Community Health Sciences; Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine; Deputy Director of Community Partnerships, UCLA Center for Healthy Climate Solutions

Synopsis: Despite promises, California doesn’t know how many people died in the record summer heat wave.

UCLA News: “We’re not respecting the most important natural disaster that we do get,” said Eisenman. “We’re not really giving it the attention it deserves, and the state releasing data is not some abstract thing — people need to know how harmful it was if they’re going to start to respect it.”

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