How Extreme Heat Affects the Body
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm Evan Osnos. David Remnick will be back next week. This summer has broken heat records in many places around the world.
It might not be the hottest summer in recorded history, it might be the second hottest summer. So, congratulations, not exactly good news. The experience of intense, sometimes deadly heat is a real part of our lives now, and it's here to stay. My colleague Drew Coolar writes for The New Yorker about medicine and public health. He's also a practicing physician at a New York hospital, and in 2023, Drew filed this story about extreme heat.
and what it's doing to us as we break one temperature record after another. Nine. Got it. Alright, we're gonna go off in 20 seconds. There are people in the world who set up labs to test how the human body reacts to all sorts of things.
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