[hassiktir]

I dont understand how this isnt bigger news?

Local emergency services were basically nonfunctioning for better part of the day along with the heat wave and various events, seems like a number of deaths (locally at least, specific to what I know for my mid sized US city) will be indirectly attributable to this.

[jmcgough]

It's entirely possible (likely, even) that someone died from this, but it's hard to know with critically ill patients whether they would have survived without the added delays.

[b800h]

On aggregate it is. How many deaths over the average for these conditions did we see?

[hassiktir]

We are in the process of calculating this but need this 24H period to roll over so we can benchmark the numbers against a similar 24H period. Its hard to tell if the numbers we get back will even be reliable given a lot of the statistics back from today from what I can tell have been via emails or similar.

[tucnak]

So what?

[callalex]

Give it like, a week before bothering to ask such questions...