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Correlation between environmental pollution indicators and COVID-19 pandemic: A brief study in Californian context
In December 2019, the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak was first detected in Wuhan Hubei province, China. The April 24, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) has confirmed more than 39,000 cases, including >1800 deaths. California's Governor Gavin Newsom ordered mand...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7219392/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32405084 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.109652 |
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author | Bashir, Muhammad Farhan MA, Ben Jiang Bilal Komal, Bushra Bashir, Muhammad Adnan Farooq, Taimoor Hassan Iqbal, Najaf Bashir, Madiha |
author_facet | Bashir, Muhammad Farhan MA, Ben Jiang Bilal Komal, Bushra Bashir, Muhammad Adnan Farooq, Taimoor Hassan Iqbal, Najaf Bashir, Madiha |
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description | In December 2019, the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak was first detected in Wuhan Hubei province, China. The April 24, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) has confirmed more than 39,000 cases, including >1800 deaths. California's Governor Gavin Newsom ordered mandatory stay at home after World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic in early March. We have evaluated the correlation between environmental pollution determinants and the COVID-19 outbreak in California by using the secondary published data from the Centers for Disease Control and the Environmental Pollution Agency (EPA). We employed Spearman and Kendall correlation tests to analyze the association of PM 2.5, PM 10, SO(2), NO(2), Pb, VOC, and CO with COVID-19 cases in California. Our findings indicate that environmental pollutants such as PM10, PM2.5, SO(2), NO(2,) and CO have a significant correlation with the COVID-19 epidemic in California. Overall, our study is a useful supplement to encourage regulatory bodies to promote changes in environmental policies as pollution source control can reduce the harmful effects of environmental pollutants. |
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spelling | pubmed-72193922020-05-13 Correlation between environmental pollution indicators and COVID-19 pandemic: A brief study in Californian context Bashir, Muhammad Farhan MA, Ben Jiang Bilal Komal, Bushra Bashir, Muhammad Adnan Farooq, Taimoor Hassan Iqbal, Najaf Bashir, Madiha Environ Res Article In December 2019, the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak was first detected in Wuhan Hubei province, China. The April 24, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) has confirmed more than 39,000 cases, including >1800 deaths. California's Governor Gavin Newsom ordered mandatory stay at home after World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic in early March. We have evaluated the correlation between environmental pollution determinants and the COVID-19 outbreak in California by using the secondary published data from the Centers for Disease Control and the Environmental Pollution Agency (EPA). We employed Spearman and Kendall correlation tests to analyze the association of PM 2.5, PM 10, SO(2), NO(2), Pb, VOC, and CO with COVID-19 cases in California. Our findings indicate that environmental pollutants such as PM10, PM2.5, SO(2), NO(2,) and CO have a significant correlation with the COVID-19 epidemic in California. Overall, our study is a useful supplement to encourage regulatory bodies to promote changes in environmental policies as pollution source control can reduce the harmful effects of environmental pollutants. Elsevier Inc. 2020-08 2020-05-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7219392/ /pubmed/32405084 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.109652 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Bashir, Muhammad Farhan MA, Ben Jiang Bilal Komal, Bushra Bashir, Muhammad Adnan Farooq, Taimoor Hassan Iqbal, Najaf Bashir, Madiha Correlation between environmental pollution indicators and COVID-19 pandemic: A brief study in Californian context |
title | Correlation between environmental pollution indicators and COVID-19 pandemic: A brief study in Californian context |
title_full | Correlation between environmental pollution indicators and COVID-19 pandemic: A brief study in Californian context |
title_fullStr | Correlation between environmental pollution indicators and COVID-19 pandemic: A brief study in Californian context |
title_full_unstemmed | Correlation between environmental pollution indicators and COVID-19 pandemic: A brief study in Californian context |
title_short | Correlation between environmental pollution indicators and COVID-19 pandemic: A brief study in Californian context |
title_sort | correlation between environmental pollution indicators and covid-19 pandemic: a brief study in californian context |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7219392/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32405084 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.109652 |
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