Environment
How Louisville Is Using GPS to Control Asthma
The Kentucky metro has some of the worst air quality in the country. And it’s crowdsourcing a cure to help its large population of sufferers.
After an extreme respiratory infection in 2015 nearly destroyed her lungs, Dawn Sirek’s asthma was out of control.
Merely getting dressed and brushing her teeth strained her lungs; walking up stairs felt like suffocating. Exercise was out of the question. With her pulmonary function levels at just 35 percent, the Louisville nurse and mother of four was hitting her emergency inhaler dozens of times per day.