Associations of acute exposure to airborne pollutants with COVID-19 infection: evidence from China.

ABSTRACT: The outbreak of COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, has spread across many countries globally. Greatly, there are limited studies concerned with the effect of airborne pollutants on COVID-19 infection, while exposure to airborne pollutants may harm human health. This paper aimed to examine the associations of acute exposure to ambient atmospheric pollutants to daily newly COVID-19 confirmed cases in 41 Chinese cities. Using a generalized additive model with Poisson distribution controlling for temperature and relative humidity, we evaluated the association between pollutant concentrations and daily COVID-19 confirmation at single-city level and multicity levels. We observed a 10-μg/m³ rise in levels of PM_2.5 (lag 0-14), O₃ (lag 0-1), SO₂ (lag 0), and

SUBMITTER: Lu B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8105699 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature