Dr. Dave Hnida: COVID-19 + Smoke From Colorado’s Wildfires = A Bad Combination

From CBS Denver:

By Raetta Holdman

August 17, 2020

DENVER (CBS4) – It’s a bad combination, the coronavirus pandemic and smoke from Colorado’s wildfires. That’s the first question CBS4 Medical Editor Dr. Dave Hnida tackled in his weekly Q&A session on CBSN Denver. Does that smoke make all of us more susceptible to COVID-19?

Dr. Dave said people who are in the hospital with coronavirus likely won’t notice the smoke because hospitals have very, very good filtration systems.

“If you have COVID and you’re well enough to be at home, definitely you don’t want to be venturing outside,” he said. “If you are asympomatic with COVID and are staying at home, the one thing you do not want to do is go outside because even though you may not be having symptoms now, the particulates that are in wildfire smoke can wind up putting you in a position where you are in the hospital.”

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