Article
Power Outages: An Underappreciated Risk Factor for Children’s Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
2024-07-21
Abstract excerpt
<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Children’s risk of exposure to carbon monoxide (CO) increases after disasters, likely due to improper generator use during power outages. Here, we evaluate the impact of outages on children’s CO-related emergency department (ED) visits in New York State (NYS). We leveraged power outage data spanning 2017-2020 from the NYS Department of Public Service for 1,865 power operating localities (i.e., co...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 5a13b2bc-c9f6-5a6f-b5dd-f51a02981543
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.07.20.24310120
