In a study published Friday in the journal Science Advances, researchers determined that wildfire smoke and extreme heat together create a previously unrecognized 'synergistic effect' or additional burden on people's health - raising their risk of hospitalization for cardiorespiratory causes by 7%.
This additional burden is not random. This is concentrated in very, very specific communities, and these communities are systematically less advantaged, with less resources and with more racial and ethnic minorities.
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