Deaths in the Chicago heat wave.

@article{Cervantes1996DeathsIT,
  title={Deaths in the Chicago heat wave.},
  author={Jennifer Cervantes},
  journal={The New England journal of medicine},
  year={1996},
  volume={335 24},
  pages={
          1848; author reply 1848-9
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:45434768}
}
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