Media hysteria, not smoky air, sent elderly to hospitals for asthma this summer

The CDC has a new study claiming that smoky air from this summer’s wildfires increased elderly visits to the hospital for asthma. It’s pretty clear from the data that media hysteria rather than smoky air is the culprit. Below is a chart from the study, as annotated by me, that explains all. Note also there was no spike at all among children.