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The 2,700 who didn't have to die: heat, housing, and a UK public health system running out of margin
Researchers put the late-spring death toll in England and Wales at 2,700. The pattern beneath the number is older than the weather.

Desk note: Monexus framed this piece against the housing-stock variable rather than the climate-attribution variable, on the view that the second has been thoroughly covered in the UK wire press and the first almost never is. The 2,700 figure is sourced to the published study as reported; the housing and AC penetration statistics appear in the same research and reporting context.
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