Does land cover affect the growth rate of COVID-19? Rethinking sustainable habitat from the One Health perspective using data from 12 cities during lockdown in Hubei Province, China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to the interconnected roles of environmental conditions and public health beyond conventional medical explanations. The One Health (OH) perspective offers a collaborative and interdisciplinary perspective that integrates humans, animals, plants, and their shared environment to achieve optimal health outcomes. The 12 cities in Hubei Province that experienced lockdown during the peak phase of COVID-19 (February 1 to March 4, 2020) provided unique samples. In this study, land cover was selected as the environmental variable, and the COVID-19 growth rate was used as the infectious disease indicator to examine their relationship, thereby investigating the potential role of environmental factors in epidemic control.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Huang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12848805 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature