Why were there more victims (per million inhabitants) of Covid in Paris or Bergamo and much fewer in Brest or Bordeaux? Like thousands of scientists around the world, they asked themselves the question from the start of the epidemic: was urban density the only reason for the excess mortality observed in cities? Isabella Annesi-Maesano, research director at Inserm, in Montpellier, and Jean-Baptiste Renard, research director at CNRS, in Orléans, had another intuition, the conclusions of which they published today in the journal Science of the Total environment: what if the key was to be found in the atmospheric pollution of the areas concerned?
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