Dr. Lisa Patel is the executive director of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, a pediatrician, a professor at Stanford University, and an expert on the impact of wildfires. We spoke about how wildfire smoke affects our health, who is at the highest risk for impact of the smoke, why wildfire air is so toxic, the best way to determine the safety of the air in your area, how to improve the air quality within your home, how long toxic air will circulate following a wildfire, and why climate change is the greatest public health threat of the 21st century.
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