Association of air pollution and weather conditions during infection course with COVID-19 case fatality rate in the United Kingdom.

ABSTRACT: Although the relationship between the environmental factors, such as weather conditions and air pollution, and COVID-19 case fatality rate (CFR) has been found, the impacts of these factors to which infected cases are exposed at different infectious stages (e.g., virus exposure time, incubation period, and at or after symptom onset) are still unknown. Understanding this link can help reduce mortality rates. During the first wave of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom (UK), the CFR varied widely between and among the four countries of the UK, allowing such differential impacts to be assessed. We developed a generalized linear mixed-effect model combined with distributed lag nonlinear models to estimate the odds ratio of the weather factors (i.e., temperature, sunlight, relative humidity, and rai

SUBMITTER: Hossain MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10770173 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature