Is Particulate Matter of Air Pollution a Vector of Covid-19 Pandemic?

The COVID-19 pandemic is a severe respiratory disease caused by the emergence of a new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, that very quickly spread in the human population. Fine particulate matter (PM) generated from combustion engines have been described as toxic to human health. Recent events stressed that h...

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Autores principales: Barakat, Tarek, Muylkens, Benoit, Su, Bao-Lian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Matter of Opinion
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7540212/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33047101
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2020.09.014
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description The COVID-19 pandemic is a severe respiratory disease caused by the emergence of a new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, that very quickly spread in the human population. Fine particulate matter (PM) generated from combustion engines have been described as toxic to human health. Recent events stressed that high concentrations of PM of air pollution might favor the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Autumn approaches, air pollution will be accentuated because of weather condition. The risk of a second outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic is highly probable. Elucidating the role of PM of air pollution in the spread of the virus is thus urgent and crucial.
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spelling pubmed-75402122020-10-08 Is Particulate Matter of Air Pollution a Vector of Covid-19 Pandemic? Barakat, Tarek Muylkens, Benoit Su, Bao-Lian Matter Matter of Opinion The COVID-19 pandemic is a severe respiratory disease caused by the emergence of a new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, that very quickly spread in the human population. Fine particulate matter (PM) generated from combustion engines have been described as toxic to human health. Recent events stressed that high concentrations of PM of air pollution might favor the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Autumn approaches, air pollution will be accentuated because of weather condition. The risk of a second outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic is highly probable. Elucidating the role of PM of air pollution in the spread of the virus is thus urgent and crucial. Elsevier Inc. 2020-10-07 2020-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7540212/ /pubmed/33047101 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2020.09.014 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. 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.
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title_fullStr Is Particulate Matter of Air Pollution a Vector of Covid-19 Pandemic?
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title_sort is particulate matter of air pollution a vector of covid-19 pandemic?
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33047101
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2020.09.014
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