Usama Bilal
Associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and co-director of the Urban Health Collaborative and the Center for Climate Change and Urban Health Research at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health
The press release accurately represents the study. It is a solid study that shows, on the one hand, the impact that the heat had on Europe during the summer of 2024, but also the use of an early warning system that allows the effects of heat to be forecast a week in advance. This makes it possible to create more accurate alerts that take into account the differences in context between areas (35 °C in Asturias is not the same as 35 °C in Seville, for many reasons including physiological, behavioural and infrastructural adaptation, etc.).