Urban Air Pollution May Enhance COVID-19 Case-Fatality and Mortality Rates in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The novel human coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has claimed more than 600,000 lives worldwide, causing tremendous public health, social, and economic damages. Although the risk factors of COVID-19 are still under investigation, environmental factors, such as urban air pollution, may play an important role in increasing population susceptibility to COVID-19 pathogenesis.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional nationwide study using zero-inflated negative binomial models to estimate the association between long-term (2010-2016) county-level exposures to NO₂, PM_2.5, and O₃ and county-level COVID-19 case-fatality and mortality rates in the United States. We used both single- and multi-pollutant models and controlled for sp

SUBMITTER: Liang D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7505160 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature