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Oded Bar-Or
Coverage of Oded Bar-Or in the Nexus archive.
- No One Really Knows How Children Handle All This Heat
The article discusses the contradiction between public health warnings about children's vulnerability to extreme heat and epidemiological data showing lower heat-related illness rates in children. It highlights CDC and federal agency advisories cautioning about children's risks, while studies indicate children aged 5-14 have the lowest rates of heat-related deaths and hospitalizations.