“The hospital has not been this busy with overflow since a few peaks in the COVID pandemic.” “The heat is taking a major toll,” Frank LoVecchio, an emergency room doctor at Valleywise Health Medical Center in Phoenix, told CNN. There have been 12 confirmed heat-related deaths in Phoenix’s Maricopa County in the first week of July, and 55 deaths in the county are suspected to be heat related and are under investigation, according to data from the Maricopa County Department of Public Health. The longevity of this heat wave, combined with the dangerously low overnight temperatures, are taking a toll on human health and infrastructure in Arizona. Summer has become a survival test as heat gets more extreme
Outdoor workers, particularly those in the farming and construction industries, are just one of the groups for which summer is now a survival test.
Farmworkers pick yellow squash at a farm in Waverly, Ohio, in July.
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