"Extreme Cold Exposes Vulnerabilities in Staten Island's Public Health System. Last winter's record-breaking cold snap brought widespread suffering to Staten Island, but the crisis also highlighted a more insidious issue: the borough's woefully inadequate public health infrastructure. As temperatures plummeted, residents without access to reliable heat struggled to survive, with reports of hypothermia, frostbite, and heat-related emergencies flooding emergency services. A closer look at the events of that frigid winter reveals a stark reality: Staten Island's public health system was woefully unprepared to respond to the crisis, leaving many residents to fend for themselves in the face of extreme weather."
Why last winter’s extreme cold was a public health failure on Staten Island New York Amsterdam News
