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View Comments MISSOULA — Missoula’s new downtown library was teeming with people who might typically spend a Saturday afternoon hiking, biking or otherwise making the most of Montana’s abundant outdoor recreation. One look at the soupy haze blanketing the city and it was clear why. “We’re definitely trying to stay out of the smoke,” Charlie Booher said as his kids picked books from the stacks. Smoke from the wildfires burning through bone-dry forests and grasslands in the West has damaged air quality this week from California to the Eastern Seaboard. The polluting smoke has been t...

“My daughter and I are still masked because she’s not vaccinated.” Kors says that means her family will continue to distance themselves from others until her daughter becomes eligible for her shot. This month, Missoula is seeing low case numbers and relatively small changes in how COVID is spreading. But that’s not the case in the Flathead Valley where 38 percent of residents are fully vaccinated “We’ve seen a pretty significant uptick in cases,” says Health Officer Joe Russell. Over the past couple of weeks, daily case numbers have spiked about 50 percent, Russell says. Flathe...

Wildfire smoke exposure linked to higher risk of COVID-19 ANI 19 Jul 2021, 15:27 GMT+10 Washington [US], July 19 (ANI): A new study has found that wildfire smoke may greatly increase susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The findings of the study appeared in the 'Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology'. The research was led by the Center for Genomic Medicine at the Desert Research Institute (DRI), Washoe County Health District (WCHD), and Renown Health (Renown) in Reno, Nev. The DRI-led research team set out to examine whether smoke from 2020 wildfi...

Study links wildfire smoke exposure to increased risk of COVID-19 ANI | Updated: Jul 19, 2021 10:31 IST Washington [US], July 19 (ANI): A new study has found that wildfire smoke may greatly increase susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The findings of the study appeared in the 'Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology'. The research was led by the Center for Genomic Medicine at the Desert Research Institute (DRI), Washoe County Health District (WCHD), and Renown Health (Renown) in Reno, Nev. The DRI-led research...

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