Linking precipitation-driven flooding events to acute respiratory illness in New York city
Laura T Cabrera-Rivera, Andrew Delgado, Andrew Maroko, Suresh A Sethi, Vishal Midya, Maanal Chowdhury, Brett F Branco, Ilias Kavouras, Ismail Nabeel · 2026
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Cabrera-Rivera and co-authors study what happens to emergency department visits for breathing problems when heavy rain floods parts of New York City. Flooding is usually expected to make illness worse, so the team checked whether visits for acute respiratory illness rose or fell around flood events.
Using city health records, they found that flooding was linked to a small decrease in these visits, about two point eight percent overall, with larger drops after moderate and major floods. The authors suggest people may stay home or delay care during floods rather than truly getting sick less often. The finding warns officials that lower visit counts during a flood may hide unmet medical need.
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| CREATOR | Laura T Cabrera-Rivera, Andrew Delgado, Andrew Maroko, Suresh A Sethi, Vishal Midya, Maanal Chowdhury, Brett F Branco, Ilias Kavouras, Ismail Nabeel |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |