Columbia Climate School: High Heat Is Preferentially Killing the Young, Not the Old, New Research Finds

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https://apnews.com/article/high-school-football-heat-deaths-climate-change-2455ba5852d83f548754e44240abf99b

Hotter summers are making high school football a fatal game for some players

BY MICHAEL CASEY
Updated 5:51 PM EST, September 20, 2024

BRANDON, Mississippi (AP) — Soon after Ashanta Laster reached the hospital, she was ushered into the emergency room where she saw doctors performing CPR on her teenage son.

Laster had gotten a call that 17-year-old Phillip Laster Jr., a lineman who played for a top Mississippi high school, had collapsed on the field during an August 2022 practice. At the time, the family says the heat index was 102 degrees (38.9 degrees Celsius) on the football field.

“They kept compressing his chest trying to bring him back. No response, no response. Never a heartbeat,” said Laster, recalling how she dropped her purse, called her husband and started praying.

“I said I was going to call all the prayer warriors and bring my son back. I wanted him to come back,” she continued. “At that point, it was just an unbelievable moment. I can’t believe my son was gone. I could not believe it ... I was in a state of shock ... that he died ... at football practice.”

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