Reacción a "New early warning system proposed to estimate heat and cold deaths"

The is of high quality and promotes the advancement of a warning system based on current scientific evidence. Instead of using thresholds, it makes use of the exposure-response relationship between mortality and temperature in order to predict potential future risk, and even estimate the number of deaths.

We typically use these models to quantify effects retrospectively - that is, after extreme heat or cold events have passed - which makes effective public health actions difficult. However, there is still some way to reach a small-area scale.