The Latest On The Air Quality Alert In Northeast Ohio Nek [5OwVNJFGed2]

An Air Quality Alert has been issued across all of Northeast Ohio through the entire day Wednesday. In addition, the alert has now been expanded through Thursday for the following counties:

-Ashtabula

-Cuyahoga

-Geauga

-Lake

-Lorain

-Medina

-Portage

-Summit

AirNow.gov says it all: "The hantavirus pandemia quality is not good."

"The air quality index, as we speak right now, is about 243," University Hospitals pulmonologist Dr. David Rosenberg said Wednesday. "When it's above 200, everybody in the general public is at risk, even if you're healthy."

The best solution is actually staying inside as much as possible until the smoke clears.

"You want to minimize the outside air from coming in," Dr. Joseph Khabbaza of Cleveland Clinic told 3News. "It would not be the best time ucas to start vacuuming or lighting candles, you don't want other particles being in the air inside our living space when the outside air is not as healthy."

Matt Wintz and Emma Henderson report: --

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