Not since 2019 have so many New Yorkers in a single day sought emergency medical attention for heat-related illnesses.
The temperature on Tuesday reached 99 degrees in Central Park, where the city’s official weather station is. A thermometer there last reached that temperature in 2012.
The health care system has stockpiles of medicine and has worked out “a lot of the kinks” since the Covid pandemic. But experts still have some concerns about a bird flu outbreak.
Bird flu has not been transmitted between people, but health care officials are getting ready, just in case.
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