Environmental pollution and COVID-19 outbreak: insights from Germany
Environmental pollution and COVID-19 outbreak: insights from Germany
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DOI：
10.1007/s11869-020-00893-9
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发表时间：
2020-08-03
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
Tan, Duojiao
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作者：
Bilal;Bashir, Muhammad Farhan;Tan, Duojiao
环境污染物和气候指标对COVID-19爆发的影响在最近的文献中得到了相当大的关注。然而，没有对德国等工业经济体的具体调查。这为我们提供了动力，使用2020年2月24日至2020年7月2日的每日数据，研究环境污染物、气候指标与德国COVID-19病例、康复和死亡之间的关联。相关分析和小波变换相干（WTC）的方法是分析工具，这是用来探索变量之间的关联，包括在研究中。我们的研究结果表明，PM2. 5、O-3和NO（2）与COVID-19的爆发有着重要的关系。此外，气温是唯一与COVID-19传播有显著相关性的重要气候指标。最后，PM10、湿度和环境质量指数仅与COVID-19大流行的活跃病例有显著关系。我们的研究结果得出结论，德国成功应对COVID-19归功于环境立法和医疗保健系统，这些立法和医疗保健系统在SARS和MERS爆发后进行了重大改革。目前的研究表明，仍面临COVID-19疫情的其他工业经济体，尤其是欧洲经济体，可以效仿德国的疫情应对模式。
The impact of environmental pollutants and climate indicators on the outbreak of COVID-19 has gained considerable attention in the recent literature. However, specific investigation of industrial economies like Germany is not available. This provides us motivation to examine the association between environmental pollutants, climate indicators and the COVID-19 cases, recoveries, and deaths in Germany using daily data from February 24, 2020, to July 02, 2020. The correlation analysis and wavelet transform coherence (WTC) approach are the analytical tools, which are used to explore the association between variables included in the study. Our findings indicate that PM2.5, O-3, and NO(2)have a significant relationship with the outbreak of COVID-19. In addition, temperature is the only significant climate indicator which has significant correlation with the spread of COVID-19. Finally, PM10, humidity, and environmental quality index have a significant relationship only with the active cases from COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings conclude that Germany's successful response to COVID-19 is attributed to environmental legislation and the medical care system, which oversaw significant overhaul after the SARS and MERS outbreaks. The current study implicates that other industrial economies, especially European economies, that are still facing COVID-19 outbreak can follow the German model for pandemic response.