PEW August 12, 2022
Medical experts say climate change will affect nearly every aspect of public health. Many of those impacts already are being felt.
Heat deaths in the United States are severely undercounted, researchers say, with some studies putting the actual total at thousands each year. Scientists are working to understand the health effects of wildfire smoke, which is an increasing problem in many states as megafires ravage the West.
“The more we learn, the worse it looks,” said Paul English, director of Tracking California, a data project tracking pollution and disease for the nonprofit research and advocacy Public Health Institute.
In some places, climate change is expanding the range and prevalence of mosquitoes and ticks — along with the diseases they...
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