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Changes of air quality during the pandemic and airborne transmission issues
The COVID-19 pandemic has killed more than 1 000 000 people within nine months in 2020. The world is changed as the cities were locked down, the traffic reduced, and people forced to work from home and keep social distance. These controlling measures also resulted in drastic reduction of the emissio...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7717361/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34676094 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaa275 |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic has killed more than 1 000 000 people within nine months in 2020. The world is changed as the cities were locked down, the traffic reduced, and people forced to work from home and keep social distance. These controlling measures also resulted in drastic reduction of the emission of many air pollutants, providing researchers an unprecedented large-scale natural experiment in examining how the air quality would respond to a strong forcing. In this panel discussion held on 22 September 2020, five experts gathered to discuss their observations and analyses, as well as the current understanding and misconception about airborne transmission. This Forum article is dedicated to Prof. Martin Williams of the Imperial College London, who intended to join the panel discussion but passed away one day before it. Guy Brasseur [Image: see text] Professor of Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany Junji Cao [Image: see text] Professor of Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Aijun Ding [Image: see text] Dean and Professor of School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, China Lidia Morawska [Image: see text] Professor of Queensland University of Technology, Australia Tong Zhu (Chair) [Image: see text] Dean and Professor of College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, China |
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spelling | pubmed-77173612020-12-09 Changes of air quality during the pandemic and airborne transmission issues Zhao, Weijie Natl Sci Rev Forum The COVID-19 pandemic has killed more than 1 000 000 people within nine months in 2020. The world is changed as the cities were locked down, the traffic reduced, and people forced to work from home and keep social distance. These controlling measures also resulted in drastic reduction of the emission of many air pollutants, providing researchers an unprecedented large-scale natural experiment in examining how the air quality would respond to a strong forcing. In this panel discussion held on 22 September 2020, five experts gathered to discuss their observations and analyses, as well as the current understanding and misconception about airborne transmission. This Forum article is dedicated to Prof. Martin Williams of the Imperial College London, who intended to join the panel discussion but passed away one day before it. Guy Brasseur [Image: see text] Professor of Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany Junji Cao [Image: see text] Professor of Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Aijun Ding [Image: see text] Dean and Professor of School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, China Lidia Morawska [Image: see text] Professor of Queensland University of Technology, Australia Tong Zhu (Chair) [Image: see text] Dean and Professor of College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, China Oxford University Press 2020-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7717361/ /pubmed/34676094 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaa275 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of China Science Publishing & Media Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Forum Zhao, Weijie Changes of air quality during the pandemic and airborne transmission issues |
title | Changes of air quality during the pandemic and airborne transmission issues |
title_full | Changes of air quality during the pandemic and airborne transmission issues |
title_fullStr | Changes of air quality during the pandemic and airborne transmission issues |
title_full_unstemmed | Changes of air quality during the pandemic and airborne transmission issues |
title_short | Changes of air quality during the pandemic and airborne transmission issues |
title_sort | changes of air quality during the pandemic and airborne transmission issues |
topic | Forum |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7717361/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34676094 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaa275 |
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