OPB: On hot summer days, 74-year-old HelenRuth Stephens doesn`t dare leave her apartment. Not to get the mail or take out the trash.
“You don`t do it because you`ll be breathless by the time you get back,” she says.
She suffers from asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Both affect her lungs. Hot weather drains her energy, she says, and makes it hard for her to breathe.
Stephens is the type of person public health officials worry about as they`re preparing for climate change.
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