The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office has confirmed its first two cold-related fatalities of the season after a 58-year-old man and a 69-year-old woman died this month.
According to the medical examiner’s office, a 58-year-old man died in Chicago on Oct. 7 as a result of necrotizing pneumonia, with hypothermia as a result of environmental cold exposure as a contributing factor.
On Oct. 25, a 69-year-old woman died in Olympia Fields as a result of cold exposure, with hypertensive cardiovascular disease and pericarditis as contributing factors.
Both deaths were ruled as accidents by the medical examiner’s office.
