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Study Estimates European Summer Heat Caused More Than 50,000 Deaths

How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.

OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN

0 13 26 24 Oct 25 Oct 26 Oct 27 Oct 28 Oct 29 Oct 30 Oct 23 Oct 14:24 UTC · Studies Estimate European Summer Heat Caused More Than 50,000 Deaths 23 Oct 18:17 UTC · Study Estimates European Summer Heat Caused More Than 50,000 Deaths

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 2 HEADLINES

  1. 23 Oct, 14:24 UTC

    Studies Estimate European Summer Heat Caused More Than 50,000 Deaths

  2. 23 Oct, 18:17 UTC

    Study Estimates European Summer Heat Caused More Than 50,000 Deaths

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • Nothing ran from the first third of the coverage to the last.

Entered the story later

  • Nothing new took hold after the first third.

Figures reported with different numbers

  • excess deaths: 50,000 (2 from 23 Oct 05:00) → 18,000 (1 from 23 Oct 05:00) → 13,303 (1 from 23 Oct 05:00) → 29,500 (1 from 23 Oct 05:40)
  • those deaths: 35 (1 from 22 Oct 23:01) → 2,535 (1 from 22 Oct 23:01) → 32,000 (1 from 23 Oct 12:20) → 32,600 (1 from 23 Oct 18:00)
  • heat deaths: 50,000 (2 from 22 Oct 23:01) → 4,354 (1 from 23 Oct 06:09)
  • people died: 50,000 (1 from 22 Oct 23:01) → 60 (1 from 22 Oct 23:01) → 4,354 (1 from 22 Oct 23:01)

Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.