{"id":452,"date":"2021-08-13T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=452"},"modified":"2024-09-01T12:28:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T16:28:05","slug":"wildfire-smoke-may-have-contributed-to-thousands-of-extra-covid-19-cases-and-deaths-in-western-u-s-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/wildfire-smoke-may-have-contributed-to-thousands-of-extra-covid-19-cases-and-deaths-in-western-u-s-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire smoke may have contributed to thousands of extra COVID-19 cases and deaths in western U.S. in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands of COVID-19 cases and deaths in California, Oregon, and Washington between March and December 2020 may be attributable to increases in fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) from wildfire smoke, according to a new study co-authored by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.<\/p>\n

The study is the first to quantify the degree to which increases in PM2.5 pollution during the wildfires contributed to excess COVID-19 cases and deaths in the U.S. It was published online August 13, 2021, in Science Advances.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe year 2020 brought unimaginable challenges in public health, with the convergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and wildfires across the western United States. In this study we are providing evidence that climate change\u2014which increases the frequency and the intensity of wildfires\u2014and the pandemic are a disastrous combination,\u201d said Francesca Dominici, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science at Harvard Chan School and senior author of the study.<\/p>\n

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<\/i> Image description: The Apple Fire burns north of Beaumont, California, on July 31, 2020. Photo: Brody Hessin. Image is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 Deed | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Xiaodan Zhou et al., Excess of COVID-19 cases and deaths due to fine particulate matter exposure during the 2020 wildfires in the United States. Sci. Adv.<\/i> 7,<\/b> eabi8789(2021). DOI: 10.1126\/sciadv.abi8789<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thousands of COVID-19 cases and deaths in California, Oregon, and Washington between March and December 2020 may be attributable to increases in fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) from wildfire smoke, according to a new study co-authored by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.<\/p>\n

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