On June 17, 2021, something very out of the ordinary happened at dozens of hospitals across eastern England: A&E attendances for people with asthma attacks soared by 560 per cent from the daily average.
The same day, asthma-related calls to GP out-of-hours services in the region rocketed by 422 per cent, while the numbers with sudden asthma symptoms calling 111 jumped by 193 per cent.
A subsequent investigation by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, revealed it was one of the biggest spikes in asthma attacks ever recorded in the UK — and it was all down to one thing, thunderstorms — the day before.
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