The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and respective shutdowns dramatically altered human activities, potentially changing human pressures on urban-dwelling animals. Here, we use such COVID-19-induced variation in human presence to evaluate, across multiple temporal scales, how urban birds...
COVID- 19 Air pollution Lockdown 1. Introduction In December 2019, the outbreak of a new disease associated with the severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was reported for the first time in the city of Wuhan (China). On January 30, 2020, after having recorded 7711...
The Chongqing government activated the first-level public health emergency response on January 24, 2020, one day after the Wuhan shutdown, and formulated a series of prevention and control measures made up of 5 parts. First, city lockdowns, traffic restrictions, and stay-at-home orders were i...
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a shutdown of universities in Germany. In a longitudinal design, we compared mental health (depression, anxiety, somatic complaints) of university students in Germany before (June to August 2019) and in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic (June 2020) and determ...
In addition, the ratio of PM2.5/CO (Table S7), an indicator of secondary pollutants to primary emissions, also increased during the COVID‐19 shutdown, especially in period III. This further confirms the remarkable increase in the secondary aerosol fraction of PM2.5 in Guangzhou during the CO...
Translational shutdown and evasion of the innate immune response by SARS-CoV-2 NSP14 protein. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101161118 (2021). Bastard, P. et al. Autoantibodies against type I IFNs in patients with life-threatening COVID-19. Science https://doi...
Placing people's lives above economic growth. When the novel coronavirus struck, China decided that it would protect the lives and health of its people even at the cost of a short-term economic downturn and even a temporary shutdown. The government took strict and comprehensive control measure...
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly altered global dynamics and public activities, leading to significant economic recession and societal shutdowns. Similar to other countries and regions, the intensive demands have physically and emotionally exhausted Chinese healthcare providers [16]. Despite these ch...
If this trend holds through 2020, it could mean that any changes in PM2.5 concentrations between the years could have been a continuation of the improvement in air quality rather than as a result of the COVID-19 shutdowns. In this current study, we found that compared to 2020, the ...
Nations like India, where the outbreak became potentially threatening after its initial rampage in East Asia and Western Europe, were somewhat quicker to impose such lockdown measures in late March 2020 (The Lancet, 2020). Such a complete shutdown of industry and vehicular movements and the ...