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 …

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 …

Several peer-reviewed papers and reviews have examined the relationship between
exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 spread and severity. However, many of the existing …

Background Exposure to poor air quality leads to increased premature mortality from
cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. Among the far-reaching implications of the ongoing …

The COVID-19 pandemic has put much of the world into lockdown, as one unintended
upside to this response, the air quality has been widely reported to have improved …

Abstract On March 12th, 2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 as a pandemic. The collective
impact of environmental and ecosystem factors, as well as biodiversity, on the spread of …

Background Ambient and household air pollution are found to lead to premature deaths from
all-cause or cause-specific death. The national lockdown measures in China during COVID …

Risk factors for increased risk of death from COVID-19 have been identified, but less is
known on characteristics that make communities resilient or vulnerable to the mortality …

The rapid spread of COVID-19 is a global public health challenge. To prevent the escalation
of its transmission, China locked down one-third of its cities and strictly restricted personal …

As we move through 2020, our world has been transformed by the spread of COVID-19 in
many aspects. A large number of cities across the world entered “sleep mode” sequentially …