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Grad student @mujschool and research assistant for @IRE_NICAR | Good at journalism, bad at voicemails
Jun 30, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
As Las Vegas gets hotter, the number of people dying from the heat is rising.

Last year, 245 people died -- double the amount from 2020, and five times higher than a decade ago. @DavidsonLVRJ and I took a closer look.

My first story @reviewjournal: reviewjournal.com/investigations… Some important things to highlight:

First, this trend is especially clear for people who get the most sun exposure and least protection. About a third of heat-related deaths in the last decade were among people believed to be homeless. Image