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Podcast: Climate Conversations
Episode: Webinar: Emergency department used body bags to keep people alive during heatwave
Description: Cecilia Sorensen  (pictured), who is the director of the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education at Columbia University and is an Emergency  Medicine physician-investigator in the area of climate change and health, told a Columbia University Climate School webinar of a hospital emergency department which had no other way of cooling heat stroke victims outside putting them in a body bag packed with ice.
The doctor was one of three panellists on a webinar, hosted by the Founding Dean of the Columbia Climate School and the Director of the  Earth Institute, Columbia University, Professor Alex N. Hal...