Table 5 Increase in incidence of major health impacts due to wildfire air pollution (units are in number of admissions, work loss days, and mortality events). Baseline incidence also included for reference.
From: Air quality and health impacts of the 2020 wildfires in California
End point | Increase | 95% confidence interval | |
|---|---|---|---|
Ozone | Â | Â | |
 Hospital admissions – asthma | 21 | (10–31) | |
 Hospital admissions – respiratory | 39 | (-13–89) | |
 Mortality | 24 | (-1–48) | |
PM2.5 | Â | Â | |
 Model only |  |  | |
 Hospital admissions – respiratory | 470 | (271–655) | |
 Hospital admissions – acute myocardial infarction | 181 | (0–333) | |
 Hospital admissions – other cardiovascular | 680 | (374–968) | |
 Work loss days | 420,661 | (358,719–479,020) | |
 Mortality | 442 | (340–539) | |
ISDW | Â | Â | |
 Hospital admissions – respiratory | 1108 | (639–1545) | |
 Hospital admissions – acute myocardial infarction | 213 | (-9–392) | |
 Hospital admissions – other cardiovascular | 505 | (288–709) | |
 Work loss days | 492,690 | (420,325–560,823) | |
 Mortality | 515 | (397–628) | |
Kriging | Â | Â | |
 Hospital admissions – respiratory | 518 | (299–723) | |
 Hospital admissions – acute myocardial infarction | 200 | (-10–369) | |
 Hospital admissions – other cardiovascular | 750 | (412–1067) | |
 Work loss days | 463,351 | (395,027–527,771) | |
 Mortality | 482 | (371–588) | |
Total hospital admissions | Â | Â | |
 Model Only | 1391 | (642–2077) | |
 ISDW | 1886 | (916–2765) | |
 Kriging | 1528 | (699–2279) | |
Total mortality | Â | Â | |
 Model only | 466 | (340–587) | |
 ISDW | 539 | (396–676) | |
 Kriging | 506 | (370–636) | |
Baseline incidence | Â | Â | |
 Baseline hospital admissions | 406,341 |  |  |
 Baseline work loss days | 51,488,353 |  |  |
 Baseline mortality | 232,073 |  |  |