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Five degrees off New York's heat-alert trigger tracked a drop of more than half in heat-stroke admissions
New York moved its emergency trigger from a heat index of 105 F to 100 F in 2008, bundled with the rest of a wider plan, and heat-stroke hospitalizations fell after it. The evidence is before-and-after.
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