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  • Hurricanes linked to higher death rates for 15 years after storms pass


    Hurricanes linked to higher death rates for 15 years after storms pass

    Hurricanes linked to higher death rates for 15 years after storms pass

    "When we started out, we thought that we might see a delayed effect of tropical cyclones on mortality maybe for six months or a year, similar to heat waves," said Young, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California Berkeley, where she began working on the study as a master's student in Hsiang's lab before he joined Stanford's faculty in July 2024.