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What is California’s wildfire smoke doing to our health? Scientists paint a bleak picture – The Guardian

Research shows people, even those living hundreds of miles away, feeling the effects from wildfire smoke in the west

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Historic wildfires burning across Californiahave sent a 500-hundred-mile-long, gray blob of smoky air swirling above the western United States,and Stanford researcher Bibek Paudelis already seeing the health effects build up.
In the days after lightning sparked hundreds of firesacross the north of the state, Paudel, who studies respiratory illness at Stanfords allergy and asthma research center, saw hospital admissions for asthma to the universitys healthcare system rise by 10% and cerebrovascu…

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