ArticleScience advances2021
Excess of COVID-19 cases and deaths due to fine particulate matter exposure during the 2020 wildfires in the United States.
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55 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 152 citations in OpenAlex.
- Health Effects of Wildfire Smoke Exposure.Annual review of medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Wildfire-Season Fine Particulate Matter Exposure and Associations with Influenza and Influenza-like-Illness Risk in the Western USA.Environmental health perspectives · 2026Article
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- Wildfires and Atopic Diseases: A Review.Allergy · 2026Review
- Ambient Air Pollution and COVID-19 in California.Research report (Health Effects Institute) · 2026Article
- Wildfire-related PM2.5 and respiratory transmitted disease among Chinese children and adolescents from 2008 to 2019: A retrospective study.PLoS medicine · 2025Article
- Effects of Fire Plume Height on the Geophysical Estimation of Surface Fine Particulate Matter from Satellite Aerosol Optical Depth during North American Wildfires.ACS ES&T air · 2025Article
- Particulate matter air pollution: effects on the respiratory system.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2025Review
- Immune impacts of fire smoke exposure.Nature medicine · 2025Article
- Associations between fine particulate matter and in-home blood pressure during the 2022 wildfire season in Western Montana, USA.Environmental research, health : ERH · 2025Article
- Respiratory Health Impacts of Landscape Fires: Insights Including Reports From East and Southeast Asia.Respirology (Carlton, Vic.) · 2025Article
- Managing Smoke Risk from Wildland Fires: Northern California as a Case Study.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- The Covid-19 hospitalization risk associated with air pollution in New York state counties after the 2023 Quebec wildfires.Journal of public health research · 2025Article
- Spatiotemporal Association of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Cases and Deaths With Exposure to Wildfire Particulate Matter in 2020.Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Wildfire-Related Air Pollution and Infectious Diseases: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.ACS environmental Au · 2025Review
- The Effect of Wildfires on Asthma and Allergies.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2025Review
- Wildfire-relevant woodsmoke and extracellular vesicles (EVs): Alterations in EV proteomic signatures involved in extracellular matrix degradation and tissue injury in airway organotypic models.Environmental research · 2025Article
- Predicting Cloud-To-Ground Lightning in the Western United States From the Large-Scale Environment Using Explainable Neural Networks.Journal of geophysical research. Atmospheres : JGR · 2024Article
- Natural and socio-environmental factors in the transmission of COVID-19: a comprehensive analysis of epidemiology and mechanisms.BMC public health · 2024Review
- Disruption of outdoor activities caused by wildfires increases disease circulation.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
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Authors and funding
8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Xiaodan ZhouEnvironmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9250-768X
Kevin JoseyDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2490-6272
Leila KamareddineDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Miah C CaineHarvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9989-7166
Tianjia LiuDepartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3129-0154
Loretta J MickleyHarvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7859-3470
Matthew CooperDepartment of Global Health and Population, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7133-3801
Francesca DominiciDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. fdominic@hsph.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9382-0141
Harvard University · USEnvironmental Systems Research Institute (United States) · USPlanetary Science Institute · US
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$4.2MEnvironmental Health Disparities in an Older PopulationR01MD012769 · NIMHD · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI BELL, MICHELLE L · 2017 to 2021
$3.9MRelationship Between Multiple Environmental Exposures and CVD Incidence and Survival: Vulnerability and SusceptibilityR01ES028033 · NIEHS · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI DOMINICI, FRANCESCA, LADEN, FRANCINE · 2018 to 2022
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$2.5MShort and long-term consequences of wildfires for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.RF1AG071024 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI CASEY, JOAN A · 2021 to 2022
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Abstract
The year 2020 brought unimaginable challenges in public health, with the confluence of the COVID-19 pandemic and wildfires across the western United States. Wildfires produce high levels of fine particulate matter (PM
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