{"id":79555,"date":"2021-08-15T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T17:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=79555"},"modified":"2021-08-15T13:56:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T17:56:11","slug":"79555","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=79555","title":{"rendered":"Are they triggering the California firestorms to exacerbate the Covid infection and mortality rates?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Study Links Excess COVID-19 Cases
\nAnd Deaths To Wildfire Smoke<\/strong><\/h1>\n

By Tom Ozimek
\nThe Epoch Times,<\/p>\n

New research indicates that exposure to pollutants in\u00a0wildfire<\/a>\u00a0smoke may have led to thousands more\u00a0COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0cases and deaths.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The\u00a0new study<\/a>, published in the journal Science Advances, links fine particle pollution known as PM2.5, which measures 2.5 micrometers across and is produced by wildfires, among other sources, to a\u00a0significant increase in COVID-19 cases and deaths in California, Oregon, and Washington state.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe wildfires exacerbated the pandemic substantially,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>said Francesca Dominici, a Harvard biostatistician and author of the study, in\u00a0remarks to National Geographic<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The study sought to gauge the impact of last year\u2019s wildfires in the three states on excess COVID-19 cases and deaths by evaluating their correlation with data on short-term PM2.5 exposure, while seeking to account for a number of confounding factors, including weather, seasonality, long-term trends, mobility, and population size.<\/p>\n

Evaluating data from 92 counties affected by fires, the study\u2019s authors \u201cfound strong evidence that wildfires amplified the effect of short-term exposure to PM2.5 on COVID-19 cases and deaths, although with substantial heterogeneity across counties.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heterogeneity refers to clinical, statistical, or methodological variability among studies in a systematic review.<\/p>\n

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Members of the Cal Fire San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit (CZU) march along Old Lawley Toll Road during the Glass Fire in Calistoga, Calif., on Oct. 2, 2020. (Stephen Lam\/Reuters)<\/em><\/p>\n

For COVID-19 cases, the study found that 52 of 92 counties had \u201cstrong evidence\u201d of a positive association between PM2.5 and heightened risk of contracting the respiratory illness, which is caused by the\u00a0CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus<\/a>, also known as the SARS-CoV-2 or the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n

While there were sharp differences across counties, when pooled across multiple counties, the results indicated that a daily increase of 10 micrograms per cubic meter in PM2.5 for 28 subsequent days was associated with an 11.7 percent increase in COVID-19 cases. In two counties with the highest impact\u2014Sonoma, California, and Whitman, Washington\u2014the researchers concluded that the same level of PM2.5 over the same time horizon was associated with a 65.3 percent and 71.6 percent increase in infections, respectively.<\/p>\n

There was also significant variability among counties in terms of COVID-19 deaths, with 17 of 92 counties reflecting \u201cstrong evidence of a positive association\u201d between PM2.5 and fatalities. Under the same PM2.5 exposure parameters as above, the researchers found an 8.4 percent overall increase in deaths, with two California counties\u2014Calaveras and San Bernardino\u2014coming in at 52.8 percent and 65.9 percent, respectively.<\/p>\n

Overall, the study concluded that the PM2.5 in wildfire smoke likely accounted for 19,742 more COVID-19 cases and 748 more deaths than would have been the case absent the fine pollutant.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe found strong evidence of a positive associations [sic] between daily increases in PM2.5 and increased risks of COVID-19 cases and deaths, cumulatively up to 4 weeks,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>the researchers wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While scientists continue to learn more about how wildfires impact human health, an expert told National Geographic that\u00a0PM2.5 could make it easier for the CCP virus to enter the body by compromising certain cells<\/strong>\u00a0that help expel various pathogens.<\/p>\n

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