It’s not just heat stroke. Extreme temperatures pose special risk to people with chronic illness (and that’s a lot of us)

By Isabella Cueto for STAT)

A sweltering 112 degrees Fahrenheit in North Texas. 97 in Minneapolis. 103 in Nebraska. Nearly 100 degrees in cities across the U.K. Temperatures across the United States and other parts of the world are soaring in the kind of extreme heat waves that are expected to become more common with climate change. Continue reading here…

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