Wendy Zuckerman
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3,659 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2020
last heard 2 Jul
Wendy Zuckerman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Pollution had been triggering Ella's asthma attacks.
And it all made a lot of sense.
Because it turned out that Ella's family lived near one of the busiest roads in London.
So all of Ella's life, she'd been breathing in lots of car exhaust and other pollution.
When Rosamund found out about all this, she was shocked.
We're still not sure why Ella's asthma was so deadly.
Like one of her siblings has asthma, but it's not nearly as bad.
Stephen thinks it's perhaps some very unlucky genetic predisposition.
But what Stephen did know was that every time little Ella breathed in all that pollution, it kept irritating her lungs more and more and more until it destroyed them.
Rosamund started researching about pollution.
And she realized that in the UK and the US, pollution levels tend to be higher in black and brown communities.
And that's partly because the government and industry have gotten away with building things like highways through black and brown neighbourhoods.
And the thing is, the neighbourhood where Rosamund lives, it has a pretty large black population.
Rosamund herself is black.
And once Rosamund knew that air pollution had played this big role in killing her daughter...
Her next question was, why didn't any of Ella's doctors know about this?
Like, why didn't they even suggest that air pollution could have been triggering her asthma?
There'd been heaps of studies, even at the time, showing that air pollution could make asthma worse.
But despite that, it just wasn't on the radar of some of the best doctors in London.
How is that possible?
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