By some estimates, wildfire smoke—which contains a mixture of hazardous air pollutants like particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and lead—already causes as many as 675,000 premature deaths a year worldwide.
It’s heartbreaking, it really is, said Dr. Afif El-Hasan, a pediatrician who specializes in asthma care...Wildfires are putting our homes in danger, but they’re also putting our health in danger, and it’s only going to get worse.
Los Angeles, in particular, has seen air pollution at levels that could be raising daily mortality by between 5 to 15 percent, said Carlos F. Gold, an expert in the health effects of air pollution.
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