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During the 2003 blackout multiple NYC hospital emergency generators failed. The outage was associated with about 90 excess deaths citywide.
TierThe NYC health department lists failures of multiple hospital emergency generators. How tiers are assigned.
The NYC health department's account lists failure of multiple hospital emergency generators, risk to patients dependent on powered equipment, and loss of ED data feeds to syndromic surveillance among the blackout's public health effects. A later time-series study estimated about 90 excess deaths in New York City, with accidental deaths up 122% and disease-related deaths up 25%.[1,2]
About 90 excess deaths citywide (Anderson & Bell 2012); deaths inside hospitals attributable to generator failures not documented in the sources reviewed.
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