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Air pollution’s impact on health and the immune system – and the ventilator quagmire

Jamie Hopkins – PublicIntegrity.org: “I wrote a story this week about air pollution’s impact on health and the immune system that included a quick data analysis. Academics who studied the impact of the 1918 flu looked at 180 cities and found that higher-pollution places — as measured by coal use — saw more deaths. I wondered how air quality in those worse-off cities looked these days and used EPA ozone and fine particle data to see.

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