CNN US | Black people are more likely to die from heat stress than White people in New York City, report says

A man sits in the shade a people wait at a bus stop in the Bronx borough of New York, U.S., on Saturday, July 20, 2019. Consolidated Edison Inc. is forecasting record power demand for New York this weekend as a heat wave blankets the city. Photographer: David ‘Dee’ Delgado/Bloomberg via Getty Images

(CNN) – There are hundreds of heat-related deaths in New York City each summer but the rate at which Black people die is twice as high compared to other racial and ethnic groups, the city’s health department says.

As millions of people in over a dozen states are under some of type of heat alert and cities continue setting high temperature records, health officials in New York City published a report Thursday examining the deadly impact of heat in recent decades. Heat is the No. 1 cause of weather-related deaths in the United States.  –read more–