Publication: L.A. Times

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

Synopsis: A new UCLA mapping tool reveals extreme heat is disproportionately fueling more than 1,500 excess emergency room visits per heat day in L.A. County.

UCLA News: Eisenman called the heat “a silent killer. Our hope is that communities will take this information and call their assemblyman and their city agencies and say: ‘What are we doing about this right now?’ Because heat is harming us right now.”

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