Revealing An Inequitable Health Crisis
Studying Patient-Level Climate Impact
Questioning Single-Use Supplies
Pursuing Carbon-Neutral Inhalers
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We did a heat map looking at … counties throughout the country with the biggest climate effect. You can superimpose them, in fact, with many low-income communities. It's a major inequity in terms of climate effect.”
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Do more preventative medicines, early diagnosis, early treatment, so we can treat these patients at home rather than having them being treated in a hospital—because hospitals are emitting quite a bit of carbon.”
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The amount of waste that we have in the health system is phenomenal. I mean, all the disposables that we have. Try to visit the operating room one day and see how many gowns, masks and things are being used [and discarded].”
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We're very well [established] in respiratory [inhalers], the puffs. But in those puffs currently there's a propellant that is not a great propellant for the planet. We want to move that propellant to be neutral for the planet and it doesn't harm anymore.”
— Dr. Victor J. Dzau,
National Academy of Medicine
— Joris Silon,
AstraZeneca
— Dr. Victor J. Dzau,
National Academy of Medicine
— Joris Silon,
AstraZeneca