Smoke and COVID-19 causing concern for people right now

Smoke and COVID-19 causing concern for people right now.

People don;t know how to tell if they are having a hard time breathing right now due to the smoke from the fires or because of COVID-19 symptoms.

Heavy smoke in the area due to the fires is raising concerns about feeling sick.

So when you feel that pain in your chest is it because of smoke, covid-19 or something else?

Action news now reporter dani masten spoke with people in chico and a doctor& people in chico are being impacted by the poor air quality and the possibility of having coronavirus symptoms sot/maggie smith/concerned about poor air quality and covid--19 "i woke up this morning with a throat ache or sore throat and i was like is this corona.

You know you just get scared nowadays because of the whole coronavirus and you question whether you have it or not but then i was like nope it's definitely because of the smoke inhalation."

I brought these concerns to butte county public health officer dr. bernstein.

"the irritant symptoms, some of which are the same but not fever, not necessarily fatigue, not a runny nose or stuffy nose, those are symptoms that are more likely to be due to the smoke irritation."

Dani stand up people here in chico tell me that they will continue to protect themselves by wearing a mask just like this one sot/ owen vollendroff/ concerned about flu and coronavirus symptoms "wearing a mask you know.

Always in public when in big groups.

When you are near people.

Just being cautious of who you are around."