The Interaction Between Air Pollution and Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Interaction Air Pollution and COVID-19doi:10.1097/JOM.0000000000002143Johanna van der ValkJohannes in't VeenJournal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illnesses ranging from the common cold to severe respiratory diseases, including COVID-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The cell entry receptor for SARS-CoV-2 has recently been confirmed by independent research groups to be angiot...
COVID-19 pandemicAir pollutionLockdownHeterogeneityHealth benefitAs we move through 2020, our world has been transformed by the spread of COVID-19 in many aspects. A large number of cities across the world entered "sleep mode" sequentially due to the stay-at-home or lockdown policies. This ...
3. Impact of air quality on COVID-19 4. Air quality assessment 5. Indoor air quality improvement 6. Discussion and hypothesis 7. Conclusion and remarks Disclosure Declaration of Competing Interest Research Data ReferencesShow full outline Cited by (201) Figures (3) Tables (5) Table 1 Table...
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought up an unusual reduced human activity, which Rutz et al. (2020) coined as ‘anthropause’, and simultaneously a unique opportunity to study the environmental response to this change. On the middle-sized city of Hat Yai, Thailand air pollution quality changes ...
COVID-19 strict lockdown impact on urban air quality and atmospheric temperature in four megacities of India[J]. Geoscience Frontiers, 2022, 13(6): 101368. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2022.101368 Citation: Subodh Chandra Pal, Indrajit Chowdhuri, Asish Saha, Manoranjan Ghosh, Paramita Roy, Biswajit ...
Air pollution and COVID-19 severity doi:10.1183/13993003.00818-2023European Respiratory JournalJordi Sunyer and Payam Dadvand
“This time lag is surprising, but also suggests that something else than just the mere interaction of people may promote the transmission of thevirus, and particularly the severity of the infection,” says Mario Rohrer. His research team has been able to show that these increases in cases ...
As it became clear at the onset of COVID-19 pandemic that coronavirus was transmitted through the air, several companies realized their NASA-derived air-quality technologies could help combat its spread. Respicaire's most popular products, and all of ActivePure's air purifiers, are based on a...
COVID-19 pandemic compelled many countries in the world to go for a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. India started the lockdown on 24 March 2020. We analyzed the air quality of three megacities of India, namely Mumbai, Delhi, and Kolkata, during the lockdown ...