"Almost Perfect Overlaps" | Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
Clip: Season 21 Episode 8 | 1m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
A heat death map lays out a painful reality about the tragic 1995 Chicago heatwave.
In this excerpt from Cooked: Survival by Zip Code, Dr. Linda Murray, a public health medical officer, talks about being enraged but not surprised at the high death toll of poor people of color who died in the 1995 heatwave in Chicago. And Steven Whitman, the city's chief epidemiologist at the time, shows a stark "heat death map" illustrating the obvious overlap of the poor and the dead.
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"Almost Perfect Overlaps" | Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
Clip: Season 21 Episode 8 | 1m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
In this excerpt from Cooked: Survival by Zip Code, Dr. Linda Murray, a public health medical officer, talks about being enraged but not surprised at the high death toll of poor people of color who died in the 1995 heatwave in Chicago. And Steven Whitman, the city's chief epidemiologist at the time, shows a stark "heat death map" illustrating the obvious overlap of the poor and the dead.
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Trailer | Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
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Preview: S21 Ep8 | 30s | Were the 739 deaths from Chicago's 1995 heatwave a one-time tragedy or appalling trend? (30s)
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