Pollution & Health

Covid-19: peaks in fine particles air pollution suspected of increasing contamination

Le Monde - For epidemiologist Antoine Flahault, episodes of pollution could “be one of the major determining factors in both the transmission and severity of Covid-19”...

The impact of outdoor air pollution on COVID-19: a review of evidence from in vitro, animal, and human studies

ERS Journal - Studies have pointed out that air pollution may be a contributing factor to the coronavirus disease 2019…

Links between air pollution and COVID-19 in England

ScienceDirect - In December 2019, a novel disease, coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19), emerged in Wuhan, People’s Republic…

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

ScienceDirect - The present work aims to study the role of air pollutants in relation to the number of deaths per each Italian province…

Air Quality Monitoring Programme

DPD Ireland - At a time when air pollution is one of the most serious environmental risks*, DPD Ireland has launched a new air quality monitoring....

Peaks in air pollution accelerate the spread of the coronavirus

Sciences et Avenir - This is a warning for the pollution peaks expected in the Paris region these days: fine particles of natural or anthropogenic origin would carry viruses...

Air quality influences COVID-19

Temperature reversal in fog or Saharan dust promotes fine particles in the air…

Fine particle pollution in Paris in 2020: variations under various and sometimes exceptional influences

SPLF - The period of generalized confinement, from March 17 to May 11, 2020, is a priori very favorable for a study of atmospheric pollution....

Air pollution linked with higher COVID-19 death rates

Harvard T.H. Chan - People with COVID-19 who live in U.S. regions with high levels of air pollution are more likely to die from the disease than people…

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