Pandemic meets pollution: poor air quality increases deaths by COVID-19

IE Isphording, N Pestel - Journal of Environmental Economics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and
severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data at the county-by-day level on confirmed …

A global association between Covid-19 cases and airborne particulate matter at regional level

A Solimini, F Filipponi, DA Fegatelli, B Caputo… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Evidences of an association between air pollution and Covid-19 infections are mixed and
inconclusive. We conducted an ecological analysis at regional scale of long-term exposure …

Short-term air pollution exposure and COVID-19 infection in the United States

L Xu, JE Taylor, J Kaiser - Environmental Pollution, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Sars-CoV-2 disease (known as COVID-19) has become a global public health
emergency. Researchers have been unveiling the transmission mechanisms and disclosing …

COVID-19 mortality and exposure to airborne PM2. 5: A lag time correlation

L Shao, Y Cao, T Jones, M Santosh, LFO Silva… - Science of the total …, 2022 - Elsevier
COVID-19 has escalated into one of the most serious crises in the 21st Century. Given the
rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 and its high mortality rate, here we investigate the impact and …

Association between short-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 infection: Evidence from China

Y Zhu, J Xie, F Huang, L Cao - Science of the total environment, 2020 - Elsevier
The novel coronavirus pneumonia, namely COVID-19, has become a global public health
problem. Previous studies have found that air pollution is a risk factor for respiratory infection …

[HTML][HTML] Air pollutants and risk of death due to COVID-19 in Italy

M Dettori, G Deiana, G Balletto, G Borruso… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The present work aims to study the role of air pollutants in relation to the number of deaths
per each Italian province affected by COVID-19. To do that, specific mortality from COVID-19 …

Association of short-term air pollution exposure with SARS-CoV-2 infection among young adults in Sweden

Z Yu, T Bellander, A Bergström, J Dillner… - JAMA network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Mounting ecological evidence shows an association between short-term air
pollution exposure and COVID-19, yet no study has examined this association on an …

The effects of air pollution on COVID-19 infection and mortality—a review on recent evidence

N Ali, F Islam - Frontiers in public health, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The outbreak of COVID-19 has created a serious public health concern worldwide.
Although, most of the regions around the globe have been affected by COVID-19 infections; …

Air pollution, sociodemographic and health conditions effects on COVID-19 mortality in Colombia: An ecological study

LA Rodriguez-Villamizar, LC Belalcázar-Ceron… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective The present study aimed to determine the association between chronic exposure
to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5), sociodemographic aspects, and health conditions with …

[HTML][HTML] Ambient fine particulate matter air pollution and the risk of hospitalization among COVID-19 positive individuals: cohort study

B Bowe, Y Xie, AK Gibson, M Cai… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Ecologic analyses suggest that living in areas with higher levels of ambient fine
particulate matter air pollution (PM 2.5) is associated with higher risk of adverse COVID-19 …