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The role of tropospheric ozone in flagging COVID-19 pandemic transmission
COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, affected millions of people worldwide causing hundreds of thousands of related fatalities. It is crucial to understand why the virus transmission seems to spread more easily in some regions than others. The residuals, with respect to the mo...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7737909/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42865-020-00026-1 |
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description | COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, affected millions of people worldwide causing hundreds of thousands of related fatalities. It is crucial to understand why the virus transmission seems to spread more easily in some regions than others. The residuals, with respect to the modeled COVID-19 per-day hospitalized patients in intensive care unit, are correlated to the meteorological and air-pollutant variables in four major metropolitan areas in Italy during a strict lockdown implemented by the Italian government, making the analysis independent from socio-economic factors. The results show that COVID-19 pandemic–related infections are slowed down by higher tropospheric ozone concentrations and eased by the atmospheric particulate. We quantitatively assessed that higher levels of tropospheric ozone, already proven effective against viruses and microbial contaminants, play a role in flagging COVID-19 pandemic transmission. Because the tropospheric ozone production is depending, among others, by air-quality and sunlight, this can explain why the virus is spreading in different ways. |
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spelling | pubmed-77379092020-12-16 The role of tropospheric ozone in flagging COVID-19 pandemic transmission Lolli, S. Vivone, G. Bull. of Atmos. Sci.& Technol. Short Communication COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, affected millions of people worldwide causing hundreds of thousands of related fatalities. It is crucial to understand why the virus transmission seems to spread more easily in some regions than others. The residuals, with respect to the modeled COVID-19 per-day hospitalized patients in intensive care unit, are correlated to the meteorological and air-pollutant variables in four major metropolitan areas in Italy during a strict lockdown implemented by the Italian government, making the analysis independent from socio-economic factors. The results show that COVID-19 pandemic–related infections are slowed down by higher tropospheric ozone concentrations and eased by the atmospheric particulate. We quantitatively assessed that higher levels of tropospheric ozone, already proven effective against viruses and microbial contaminants, play a role in flagging COVID-19 pandemic transmission. Because the tropospheric ozone production is depending, among others, by air-quality and sunlight, this can explain why the virus is spreading in different ways. Springer International Publishing 2020-12-15 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7737909/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42865-020-00026-1 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Short Communication Lolli, S. Vivone, G. The role of tropospheric ozone in flagging COVID-19 pandemic transmission |
title | The role of tropospheric ozone in flagging COVID-19 pandemic transmission |
title_full | The role of tropospheric ozone in flagging COVID-19 pandemic transmission |
title_fullStr | The role of tropospheric ozone in flagging COVID-19 pandemic transmission |
title_full_unstemmed | The role of tropospheric ozone in flagging COVID-19 pandemic transmission |
title_short | The role of tropospheric ozone in flagging COVID-19 pandemic transmission |
title_sort | role of tropospheric ozone in flagging covid-19 pandemic transmission |
topic | Short Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7737909/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42865-020-00026-1 |
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