In a CNRS study published at the beginning of the month, two researchers specializing in air pollution showed that the most polluted cities in Western Europe are those which experienced the rate highest mortality rate during the Covid-19 epidemic.
Two curves overlap
In Paris, in spring 2020: the mortality curves of Covid-19 and those of air pollution overlap. “The more we have peaks in fine particle pollution, the more we will have in the week following a very strong increase in activity-related mortality,” explains Jean-Baptiste Bernard, research director at the CNRS, at origin of this study.
"On the other hand, when the pollution peak stops, one to two weeks later we see a significant drop in mortality. This phenomenon of changes in activity in relation to pollution seems universal."< /p>
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