Chris Murray: “We submit that the answer is an easy and emphatic yes.”

If more states started putting those orders in place immediately, would that affect the death toll? Absolutely.

The consequences of climate change are clear to see - whether that is emergency services stretched by tackling heatwaves, farmers struggling through droughts or towns coping with the economic and human impacts of flooding.

Now, more than ever, we need politicians willing to stand strong on climate action as the country swelters through record-breaking heatwaves, in the hottest summer of our lives - so far.

We've really got to focus on scaling up testing and contact tracing and isolation.