COVID-19 prevalence and fatality rates in association with air pollution emission concentrations and emission sources

Hendryx, Michael; Luo, Juhua

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115126

Cited by 87 publications

(86 citation statements)

References 16 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…To date, several studies have examined the association between ambient air pollution and the incidence or mortality of COVID-19 around world, through time-series, regression or correlation test ( Table 3 ). Although the studies has some notable differences as compared to our work, sepecially in the statistic model, the results from different countries and regions, including China( Xu et al, 2020a ; Zhu et al, 2020 ), the USA( Bashir et al, 2020 ; Hendryx and Luo, 2020 ) and Italy( Fattorini and Regoli, 2020 ; Ogen, 2020 ; Zoran et al, 2020a , b ), are similar to ours and generally point to positive association between air pollution and risk of COVID-19.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 70%

“…4 to Apr. 24, 2020 Spearman rank correlation tests Correlation coefficient (R) on daily confirmed cases and deaths PM 2.5 -0.267 a ; -0.350 b PM 10 -0.339 a ; -0.429 b NO 2 -0.485 a ; -0.731 b SO 2 -0.309 a ; -0.397 b Hendryx and Luo (2020) 3143 counties in the US Data up to May 31, 2020 Linear multiple regression Estimate (SE) on prevalence and death rates PM 2.5 Prevalence: 23.5(10.3) * Death rates: 1.08(0.54) * Fattorini and Regoli (2020) 71 provinces in Italy Data up to Apr. 27, 2020 Pearson correlation coefficient of determination (R 2 ) PM 2.5 0.340** PM 10 0.267* NO 2 0.247** O 3 0.264* Zoran et al (2020) Milan, Italy Jan. 1 to Apr.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Associations between air pollution and COVID-19 epidemic during quarantine period in China

Zhang

Tang

Guo

et al. 2021

Environmental Pollution

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has become a global public health threaten. A series of strict prevention and control measures were implemented in China, contributing to the improvement of air quality. In this study, we described the trend of air pollutant concentrations and the incidence of COVID-19 during the epidemic and applied generalized additive models (GAMs) to assess the association between short-term exposure to air pollution and daily confirmed cases of COVID-19 in 235 Chinese cities. Disease progression based on both onset and report dates as well as control measures as potential confounding were considered in the analyses. We found that stringent prevention and control measures intending to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, contributed to a significant decline in the concentrations of air pollutants except ozone (O 3 ). Significant positive associations of short-term exposure to air pollutants, including particulate matter with diameters ≤2.5μm (PM 2.5 ), particulate matter with diameters ≤10μm (PM 10 ), and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) with daily new confirmed cases were observed during the epidemic. Per interquartile range (IQR) increase in PM 2.5 (lag0-15), PM 10 (lag0-15), and NO 2 (lag0-20) were associated with a 7% [95% confidence interval (CI): (4 - 9)], 6% [95% CI: (3 - 8)], and 19% [95% CI: (13 - 24)] increase in the counts of daily onset cases, respectively. Our results suggest that there is a statistically significant association between ambient air pollution and the spread of COVID-19. Thus, the quarantine measures can not only cut off the transmission of virus, but also retard the spread by improving ambient air quality, which might provide implications for the prevention and control of COVID-19.

show abstract

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 70%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Associations between air pollution and COVID-19 epidemic during quarantine period in China

Zhang

Tang

Guo

et al. 2021

Environmental Pollution

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The highest number of COVID-19 cases were recorded in the most polluted regions with patients presenting with more severe forms of the disease requiring ICU admission [34]. Areas with worse prior air quality, especially higher concentrations of diesel exhaust, may be at greater COVID-19 risk, although further studies are needed to con rm these relationships [35].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Implications of COVID-19 on The of Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) in Ethiopia

Bulto

Chebo

Ede

et al. 2020

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background: The novel coronavirus pandemic, namely COVID-19, has become a global public health problem. COVID-19 was first reported in Ethiopia on 14 March 2020 by WHO. This paper is aimed at identifying the implication of COVID-19 on the concentration of PM2.5 from March 14, 2020 to July 31, 2020 in Ethiopia. Methods: The study gathered the environmental data released by Addis Ababa Central monitoring station before and during the coronavirus pandemic and discusses its impact on air quality. Daily concentrations of PM2.5 were compared before and during the COVId-19 for 280 days. The study compared the daily concentration of PM2.5 before COVID-19 from October 25, 2019 to March 13, 2020 and during COVID-19 from March 14, 2020 to July 31, 2020. The summary of the particulate matter, number of cases and deaths from March 14, 2020 to July 31, 2020 were analyzed in Ethiopia.Results: The results show that, the concentration of PM2.5 during COVID-19 was higher than before COVID-19. As air pollution increased the number of deaths was increased during coronavirus pandemic. There were 16,615 confirmed cases and 263 number of deaths from March 14, 2020 to July 31, 2020 in Ethiopia. Conclusion: We found that the concentration of PM2.5 during COVID-19 was higher than before COVID-19. COVID-19 has implications for the fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution in metropolitan city.

show abstract

“…Anyhow, it is still unclear the relationship between COVID-19 transmission and PM2.5 exposure which is in need of further investigation (Hendryx and Luo, 2020) and many controversial results have been reported about the effect of climate on the COVID-19 spread, partly as a consequence of the different statistical methodologies chosen(Briz-Redón and Serrano-Aroca, 2020b). We have used univariate Poisson models accounting for the presence of temporal autocorrelation in the data.…”

Section: Association Analysis Of Pm25 Pollution and Weather Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A city-level analysis of air pollution, climate and COVID-19 early spread during the Spanish lockdown

Briz‐Redón¹,

Belenguer-Sapiña

Serrano‐Aroca

2020

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The COVID-19 outbreak has escalated into the worse pandemic of the present century. The rapid spread of the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has caused devastating health and economic crises all over the world, with Spain being one of the worst affected countries in terms of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths per inhabitant. In this situation, the Spanish Government declared the lockdown of the country with the aim of flattening the epidemic curve. The variations of air pollution in terms of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) levels in 8 cities of Spain are analyzed here considering the effect of meteorology during the COVID-19 lockdown period (from March 15th to April 12th 2020). The results of the analysis show that the 4-week Spanish lockdown was not long enough to reduce the PM2.5 levels in all the cities considered. These reductions were less than those expected, despite the drastically reduced human activity. Furthermore, no associations between COVID-19 accumulated cases and PM2.5 exposure or environmental conditions (temperature, precipitation, wind speed, sunlight hours, maximum pressure) were found during the early spread of the pandemic.

show abstract

COVID-19 prevalence and fatality rates in association with air pollution emission concentrations and emission sources

Cited by 87 publications

References 16 publications

Associations between air pollution and COVID-19 epidemic during quarantine period in China

Associations between air pollution and COVID-19 epidemic during quarantine period in China

Implications of COVID-19 on The of Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) in Ethiopia

A city-level analysis of air pollution, climate and COVID-19 early spread during the Spanish lockdown

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About