As Trump Denies Climate Change, At Least 170 Hospitals Face Major Flood Risk - KFF Health News
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In West Virginia’s capital of Charleston, where about 50,000 people live in a wide, flat river valley, an intense storm has the potential to flood five of the city’s six hospitals at once. At the largest hospital, as much as 5 feet of water could reach the emergency room. At the children’s hospital, the river could rise to cut off all exits. And at another hospital in the city center, more than 10 feet of…
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