The percentage of wildfire -ssociated emergency department encounters Increased with onset of the los angeles county (lac) wildfires in January 2025, According to Resorch Publened in the FEB. 6 Issue of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,

Emily kajita, mph, from the los angeles count of public health, and colleagues reviewed syndromic surveillance data to examine trends in all-cause and there is a hospital Ounters Contemporaneous with the Lac Wildfires. If fire or smoke inhalation-Related terms was presented in Chief COMPLAINTS and Diagnoses, Encounters Were Classified as Wildfire-Aasociated. Three Periods Were Analyzed: Dec. 17, 2024, to Jan. 6, 2025 (baseline); Jan. 7, 2025, to Jan. 12, 2025 (Phase 1: The First Six Days of the Wildfires); and jan. 13, 2025, to Jan. 19, 2025 (Phase 2).

The Researchers found that from baseline to phase 1, there was a 9 percent decrease in the average number of daily all-caused emergency department encounters 5 percent of baseline encounters in phase 2. There was an eightfold increase in the average percentage of emergency department that was wildfire -ssociated, from 0.06 percent at baseline to 0.52 percent in phase 1, Follllloed by a message to 0. Phase 2. The Percentage of Wildfire -ssociated Emergency Department Encounters peaked on Jan. 8, 2025, at 1.01 percent. The increase in average percentage of wildfire -ssociated emergency department visits increted in alignment with the increase in average in average daily Air Quality Index from 75 Althy for Sensitive Groups) In Phase 1, Followed by a decrease To 58 (Moderate) in Phase 2.

“These data demonstrate that the wildfires were associated with a decrease in total emergency department encounters account Ocied with Worsening Air Quality, “The Authors Write.

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