Title: More People Die in Winter than Summer | American Council on Science and Health
Headings: More People Die in Winter than Summer
More People Die in Winter than Summer
What Can We Conclude from This Data?
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American Council on Science and Health Comment Policy
By Alex Berezow, PhD

Content: and 8,344, respectively. By contrast, the summer months of June, July, and August recorded 7,298; 7,157; and 7,158 average daily deaths, respectively. The other months had daily averages somewhere in between those extremes, but it is notable that the relatively cooler spring and fall also exhibited a greater number of deaths than the summer. What Can We Conclude from This Data? It's tough to draw any conclusions from this data alone. So, we will need to rely upon some outside information. In general, we can draw three conclusions: 1) Summer heat waves are deadly, but winter is deadlier.