Fires Outside, Virus Inside

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The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Katherine’s in California, where things could be better. She’s been wearing two masks—one for the coronavirus, and one for the wildfire smoke—but she isn’t sure how to interpret the air quality warnings. Jim wants to know how air pollution like the smoke interacts with COVID-19. So they called Dr. John Balmes, an expert who’s studied inhaled pollutants for decades and serves as the Physician Member for the California Air Resources Board. Join us live next week at the Atlantic Festival at 12pm ET. We’ll be joined by Alexis Madrigal and will take questions. Register for free at: theatlanticfestival.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.2	that are happening without seeming like you're using a cliche?
0:53.0	For me, no, but I understand that's a common sentiment.
0:57.0	Anyway, there is an apocalyptic quality, I would say to California right now because of the smoke.
1:04.0	Yeah I saw the Oakland athletics. Are you taught is are you referring to a sports team?
1:12.0	There's a sports team called the athletics?
1:14.9	Yeah. This is a serious question. Yeah. Is that real? Yeah. It's like calling a
1:19.6	sports team sports. The sporters.
1:23.0	Honestly it's more logical than a lot of the names that the Cleveland
1:27.0	sporters.
1:28.0	Right.
1:30.0	So there was a baseball game in Seattle where it was just hazy like you could see oh the
1:35.5	Thickness of the air and they were playing yeah, they started playing at least one of the outfieldfielders was wearing an n95.
1:44.0	What? Why are they playing?
1:45.7	Yeah.
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