[palmer]

Mortality is 10-15% higher in winter than in summer. That is mortality for nearly every type of illness. That especially includes cardio vascular and stroke, but also diseases like cancer. In summer people can die from the heat but for the majority of those, their time was up. What happens after a summer heat wave is death rates drop below the average for the summer. What happens after a cold wave is death rates stay high.

I don't think that lack of A/C due to lack of electricity is going to change that since that disparity has been true since before A/C. It is basically the fact that heat can be alleviated rather easily, adapted to, etc, but cold wears you down.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I think you are right when referring to the NE. Winter is the killer. Here in the South summer is the killer. We don’t get that cold here and it only lasts for 3 mos.