Permanent Daylight-Saving Time Could Have Health Downsides

The Senate has passed a bill that would end the chore of resetting our clocks twice a year. The Sunshine Protection Act would make daylight saving time permanent year-round beginning in the fall of 2023. The bill now goes to the House. Its chances there are unclear. Meanwhile, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine warns that it could harm public health. Dr. Karin Johnson is an associate professor of neurology at UMass Chan Medical School Baystate and medical director of the Baystate Regional Sleep Medicine Program and says there is increased health risk, things like increased strokes and heart attacks, as well as car accidents that occur in that week after time change, especially in the springtime. Read more about the health risks here.