From using the right air purifier to creating clean rooms, PNNL researcher Chrissi Antonopoulos offers tips on protecting you and your family from harmful wildfire smoke when indoors. The dangers of inhaling smoke are well established. Many people do their best to avoid breathing it in. But what about when the smoke comes to you?...
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Wildfire smoke may have contributed to thousands of extra COVID-19 cases and deaths in the western US in 2020
by Harvard School of Public Health The Apple Fire burns into the night north of Beaumont on Friday, July 31, 2020. Credit: https://twitter.com/BrodyHessin/status/1289446228082663424 Brody Hessin/Wikimedia Commons CC/4.0 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...