GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Air quality reached unhealthy levels across the state Thursday as smoke from the Canadian wildfires drifted south.

Michigan declared an air quality advisory lasting through noon Friday.

Dr. Julia Becker, a physician in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division at Corewell Health, takes care of patients with significant lung disease like asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Since wildfire smoke drifted south, she said her patients have seen much worse symptoms. But it's not just them.

"Even healthy people I think might notice some coughing, headaches, sore throat," she said. "All those conditions are gonna feel worse when the air quality's this bad."

Becker said that healthy individuals can experience those symptoms when the air quality is in the

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