Orange you glad? The Canadian wildfire smoke that covered the NYC skyline with a toxic amber glow in June was no worse for your lungs than a bad pollen day, researchers at NYU Langone found. ̶…
“Thankfully, the respiratory effects of the wildfire smoke in June were not much worse than what had been seen on really bad pollen days back in the spring, and despite what many New Yorkers may have feared on seeing hazy, orange air,” Wuyue Yu, one of the study’s co-authors, said in a press release.
Many took to social media to describe the apocalyptic feel of being surrounding by burnt orange smog that painted the Big Apple’s iconic skyline for several hours on June 7, but turns out it wasn’t much worst than a bad pollen day.New research suggests that New Yorkers were overly cautious, as emergency rooms only saw a small uptick in patients coming in with breathing problems and asthma attacks compared to a normal day.The PM 2.
The study, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, found that air quality was half as bad on June 7 as a high pollen count day, measuring it through particulate matter 2.5 .At its worst, the PM 2.5 was at 146 micrograms per cubic meter of air on June 7, researchers found, bringing in 335 patients for asthma-related issues – up from the average of 188.
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