Air pollution endangers our patients’ health. Air pollution endangers our patients' health and contributes to approximately 107,000 premature deaths every year in the United States alone. Climate change, for which air pollution is the primary driver, is already increasing those negative health impacts, affecting everyone from fetuses in their mothers' wombs to the eldest and all those in between. We can find solutions and lessen those impacts but we must take action now.
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