The death toll from Europe’s 2003 heatwave should have been a warning.
The press refused to analyze the 2003 heatwave, but if you went from raw data at the time...the bulk of French and Italian deaths were people over the age of 65. The older Germans? It was like one German for every ten French dead. The Germans who were dehydrated, went to bottled water....the French went to wine (I think the same for the Italians).