Confusing: Heat waves allegedly kill more Americans than all other weather events combined. Also, cold weather kills far more people than hot weather

Climate Change: Coping With The Health Effects Of Rising Temperatures | WBUR

heat waves kill more people in the United States than all other weather events combined...
Climate change projections vary, but under some models the Boston area could have as many as 60 days over 90 degrees each summer; by comparison, until 1990, there were fewer than 10...
Lipson, of the Cambridge Public Health Department, says he worries most about another mosquito-borne disease: yellow fever.

“When I think about disease, which could have an enormous public health impact, and I’m speculating,” Lipson said. “I wonder if we’ll be revisited by yellow fever, since it’s demonstrated it can live in this climate.”

Flashback: Cold Weather Kills More People than Heat | Heartland Institute

BBC News and Department of the Interior analyst Indur Goklany have published separate papers documenting how cold weather kills far more people than hot weather.

Federal mortality statistics show 800 more people die every day in December, January, and February than occurs on an average day during the rest of the year. The winter months kill 72,000 more U.S. citizens than the spring-summer-autumn average.

The three months with the lowest mortality are the hot-weather summer months of June, July, and August.