About 30,000 more Canadians died over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic than would be expected in normal years, but not all of them were due to COVID-19. As Jamie Mauracher explains, experts say an unsuspecting cause of mortality we can’t ignore is heat.
- Ontario COVID update: 1,392 people in hospital, 156 in ICU
- Extreme heat, overdoses contributed to excess deaths in Canada amid COVID-19: report