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Associations between air pollution and COVID-19 epidemic during quarantine period in China()

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has become a global public health threaten. A series of strict prevention and control measures were implemented in China, contributing to the improvement of air quality. In this study, we described the trend of air pollutant concentrations and the incidence of COVI...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Xinhan, Tang, Mengling, Guo, Fanjia, Wei, Fang, Yu, Zhebin, Gao, Kai, Jin, Mingjuan, Wang, Jianbing, Chen, Kun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7573694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33126032
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115897
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author Zhang, Xinhan
Tang, Mengling
Guo, Fanjia
Wei, Fang
Yu, Zhebin
Gao, Kai
Jin, Mingjuan
Wang, Jianbing
Chen, Kun
author_facet Zhang, Xinhan
Tang, Mengling
Guo, Fanjia
Wei, Fang
Yu, Zhebin
Gao, Kai
Jin, Mingjuan
Wang, Jianbing
Chen, Kun
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description The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has become a global public health threaten. A series of strict prevention and control measures were implemented in China, contributing to the improvement of air quality. In this study, we described the trend of air pollutant concentrations and the incidence of COVID-19 during the epidemic and applied generalized additive models (GAMs) to assess the association between short-term exposure to air pollution and daily confirmed cases of COVID-19 in 235 Chinese cities. Disease progression based on both onset and report dates as well as control measures as potential confounding were considered in the analyses. We found that stringent prevention and control measures intending to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, contributed to a significant decline in the concentrations of air pollutants except ozone (O(3)). Significant positive associations of short-term exposure to air pollutants, including particulate matter with diameters ≤2.5 μm (PM(2.5)), particulate matter with diameters ≤10 μm (PM(10)), and nitrogen dioxide (NO(2)) with daily new confirmed cases were observed during the epidemic. Per interquartile range (IQR) increase in PM(2.5) (lag0-15), PM(10) (lag0-15), and NO(2) (lag0-20) were associated with a 7% [95% confidence interval (CI): (4–9)], 6% [95% CI: (3–8)], and 19% [95% CI: (13–24)] increase in the counts of daily onset cases, respectively. Our results suggest that there is a statistically significant association between ambient air pollution and the spread of COVID-19. Thus, the quarantine measures can not only cut off the transmission of virus, but also retard the spread by improving ambient air quality, which might provide implications for the prevention and control of COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-75736942020-10-20 Associations between air pollution and COVID-19 epidemic during quarantine period in China() Zhang, Xinhan Tang, Mengling Guo, Fanjia Wei, Fang Yu, Zhebin Gao, Kai Jin, Mingjuan Wang, Jianbing Chen, Kun Environ Pollut Article The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has become a global public health threaten. A series of strict prevention and control measures were implemented in China, contributing to the improvement of air quality. In this study, we described the trend of air pollutant concentrations and the incidence of COVID-19 during the epidemic and applied generalized additive models (GAMs) to assess the association between short-term exposure to air pollution and daily confirmed cases of COVID-19 in 235 Chinese cities. Disease progression based on both onset and report dates as well as control measures as potential confounding were considered in the analyses. We found that stringent prevention and control measures intending to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, contributed to a significant decline in the concentrations of air pollutants except ozone (O(3)). Significant positive associations of short-term exposure to air pollutants, including particulate matter with diameters ≤2.5 μm (PM(2.5)), particulate matter with diameters ≤10 μm (PM(10)), and nitrogen dioxide (NO(2)) with daily new confirmed cases were observed during the epidemic. Per interquartile range (IQR) increase in PM(2.5) (lag0-15), PM(10) (lag0-15), and NO(2) (lag0-20) were associated with a 7% [95% confidence interval (CI): (4–9)], 6% [95% CI: (3–8)], and 19% [95% CI: (13–24)] increase in the counts of daily onset cases, respectively. Our results suggest that there is a statistically significant association between ambient air pollution and the spread of COVID-19. Thus, the quarantine measures can not only cut off the transmission of virus, but also retard the spread by improving ambient air quality, which might provide implications for the prevention and control of COVID-19. Elsevier Ltd. 2021-01-01 2020-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7573694/ /pubmed/33126032 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115897 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. 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.
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