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•What is the real toll of natural and climate disasters? Science has staggering new answers | Devi Sridhar
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New research challenges us to see these disasters as broader events that have lasting effects for decades after they hit.
A large number of premature deaths in the US could be traced back to tropical cyclone events.
This is the first systematic attempt to look across hundreds of natural disaster’ events and capture the full impact in terms of deaths over decades .
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