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Impact of meteorological conditions and air pollution on COVID-19 pandemic transmission in Italy
Italy was the first, among all the European countries, to be strongly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (Sars-CoV-2). The virus, proven to be very contagious, infected more than 9 million people worldwide (in June 2020). Nevertheless,...
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author | Lolli, Simone Chen, Ying-Chieh Wang, Sheng-Hsiang Vivone, Gemine |
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description | Italy was the first, among all the European countries, to be strongly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (Sars-CoV-2). The virus, proven to be very contagious, infected more than 9 million people worldwide (in June 2020). Nevertheless, it is not clear the role of air pollution and meteorological conditions on virus transmission. In this study, we quantitatively assessed how the meteorological and air quality parameters are correlated to the COVID-19 transmission in two large metropolitan areas in Northern Italy as Milan and Florence and in the autonomous province of Trento. Milan, capital of Lombardy region, it is considered the epicenter of the virus outbreak in Italy. Our main findings highlight that temperature and humidity related variables are negatively correlated to the virus transmission, whereas air pollution (PM(2.5)) shows a positive correlation (at lesser degree). In other words, COVID-19 pandemic transmission prefers dry and cool environmental conditions, as well as polluted air. For those reasons, the virus might easier spread in unfiltered air-conditioned indoor environments. Those results will be supporting decision makers to contain new possible outbreaks. |
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spelling | pubmed-75309962020-10-06 Impact of meteorological conditions and air pollution on COVID-19 pandemic transmission in Italy Lolli, Simone Chen, Ying-Chieh Wang, Sheng-Hsiang Vivone, Gemine Sci Rep Article Italy was the first, among all the European countries, to be strongly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (Sars-CoV-2). The virus, proven to be very contagious, infected more than 9 million people worldwide (in June 2020). Nevertheless, it is not clear the role of air pollution and meteorological conditions on virus transmission. In this study, we quantitatively assessed how the meteorological and air quality parameters are correlated to the COVID-19 transmission in two large metropolitan areas in Northern Italy as Milan and Florence and in the autonomous province of Trento. Milan, capital of Lombardy region, it is considered the epicenter of the virus outbreak in Italy. Our main findings highlight that temperature and humidity related variables are negatively correlated to the virus transmission, whereas air pollution (PM(2.5)) shows a positive correlation (at lesser degree). In other words, COVID-19 pandemic transmission prefers dry and cool environmental conditions, as well as polluted air. For those reasons, the virus might easier spread in unfiltered air-conditioned indoor environments. Those results will be supporting decision makers to contain new possible outbreaks. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7530996/ /pubmed/33004925 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73197-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Lolli, Simone Chen, Ying-Chieh Wang, Sheng-Hsiang Vivone, Gemine Impact of meteorological conditions and air pollution on COVID-19 pandemic transmission in Italy |
title | Impact of meteorological conditions and air pollution on COVID-19 pandemic transmission in Italy |
title_full | Impact of meteorological conditions and air pollution on COVID-19 pandemic transmission in Italy |
title_fullStr | Impact of meteorological conditions and air pollution on COVID-19 pandemic transmission in Italy |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of meteorological conditions and air pollution on COVID-19 pandemic transmission in Italy |
title_short | Impact of meteorological conditions and air pollution on COVID-19 pandemic transmission in Italy |
title_sort | impact of meteorological conditions and air pollution on covid-19 pandemic transmission in italy |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7530996/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33004925 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73197-8 |
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