In the report “Deaths Related to Hurricane Irma — Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina, September 4–October 10, 2017,” on page 829, the sixth sentence of the fifth paragraph should have read “Fourteen (10.9%) of the heat-related deaths occurred among geriatric patients with existing chronic diseases who resided in a nursing home in Florida that was without power for several days during a period of hot weather after the hurricane’s landfall.” In addition, on page 831, the second footnote of the figure should have read “†Fourteen of the 17 heat-related deaths occurred in residents of a nursing home in Florida that was without power for several days.”
. 2019 Mar 29;68(12):291. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6812a5
Erratum: Vol. 67, No. 30
Collection date 2019 Mar 29.
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This corrects the article "Deaths Related to Hurricane Irma — Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina, September 4–October 10, 2017" in volume 67 on page 829.
