The smoke from Canadian wildfires that drifted into the U.S. led to a spike in people with asthma visiting emergency rooms—particularly in the New York area.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published two studies Thursday about the health impacts of the smoke, which shrouded city skylines with an orange haze in late spring. AWhen air quality worsens,"an asthmatic feels it before anyone else," said Dr. Adrian Pristas, a pulmonologist based in Hazlet, New Jersey, who remembered a flood of calls from patients in June during the days of the heaviest smoke.
Each of the studies looked at different geographic areas—one was national, one was specific to New York state and the last focused on New York City. A man in Jersey City, N.J., runs in front of the sun rising over the lower Manhattan skyline on Thursday, June 8, 2023, as smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed the northeastern U.S. The smoke that drifted into the U.S. led to a spike in people with asthma visiting emergency rooms — particularly in the New York area. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published two studies Thursday, Aug.
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