In March of 2020, New York became the epicenter of the US COVID-19 outbreak. Lockdown measures were put in place on a state and city level in order to slow the spread of the virus. During this lockdown period, New York observed a 25% reduction in fine particle pollution (PM2.5) as...
One state that utilized such measures was New York, which contains New York City (NYC), the most populous city in the United States. Many reports have shown that due to the government-backed shutdowns, the air quality in major global cities improved. However, there has been only limited ...
In cities such as Los Angeles, COVID-19 seems to have played no part in the improvement of air quality. The large fleet of delivery trucks has been plying the roads as usual which proves just what a major source of pollution they are. Looking towards the eastern seaboard, the story is ...
We observed that the two important COVID-19 metrics of infection rates and death rates to be well correlated, and both metrics being highest in counties located near New York City, considered one of the epicenters of the infection in the US. In contrast, disease fatality was found to be ...
Pregnant, low-income New Yorkers living in neighborhoods with higher levels of air pollution were 60 percent more likely to test positive for COVID-19, according to a new study led by scientists at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The
2015). Thus, even if people fear a second wave of COVID-19, there may also be a tsunami of global pollution. Countries that are most affected by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic may also be those with the highest economic consequences of the lockdown, and these countries may also have the ...
Lockdown for CoViD-2019 in Milan: What are the effects on air quality? Sci. Total Environ. 732, 139280 [16] Dantas, G., Siciliano, B., França, B.B., da Silva, C.M., Arbilla, G., 2020. The impact of COVID-19 partial lockdown on the air quality of the city of Rio de...
exposure to the airborne substances, which would more closely mimic their experiences dashing to catch a train at the last minute. In addition, it remains unclear whether the steep drop in New York subway ridership due to the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the metro's air quality, he adds...
COVID-19 pandemic; US; air quality; remote sensing; atmospheric composition Graphical Abstract1. Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has led to profound impacts on the global population, resulting in almost a million deaths in addition to several millions of infected people, many of whom are ...
lockdown measures to contain the COVID-19 virus outbreak, in early 2020, the concentrations and emissions of trace gases and aerosols in China changed substantially, which provided a sad but also unique opportunity to study the effect of a drastic change in anthropogenic emissions on air quality...