Air quality and COVID-19 adverse outcomes: Divergent views and experimental findings.
Air quality and COVID-19 adverse outcomes: Divergent views and experimental findings.
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空气质量和COVID-19的不利后果：不同的观点和实验结果。
DOI：
10.1016/j.envres.2020.110556
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发表时间：
2021-03
影响因子：
8.3
通讯作者：
Salustri F
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文献类型：
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作者：
Becchetti L;Beccari G;Conzo G;Conzo P;De Santis D;Salustri F
空气污染与2019年冠状病毒病(新冠肺炎)传播或相关死亡之间的可疑联系是一个热门话题，根据不同的观点立即被认为是一个热门话题。第一种“学派”主张，重要的只是标准的流行病学变量(即相互作用的频率与病毒量的比例)。另一种观点认为，空气质量等辅助因素也起着重要作用。我们分析了现有的文献，这些文献涉及以不同污染物衡量的空气质量与一系列新冠肺炎结果之间的联系，例如阳性病例数量、死亡人数和超额死亡率。我们回顾了世界各地进行的几项研究，并讨论了许多旨在调查因果关系的不同方法。我们的论文回顾了最新的实证研究，这些研究记录了世界范围内存在关于空气污染对健康，特别是对新冠肺炎结果所起作用的大量证据。这些结果分别支持两个学派的研究假说，即长期暴露效应和短期后果(包括颗粒物充当病毒“载体”的假说)。从许多不同的研究方法来看，空气污染与新冠肺炎成果之间的联系是牢固而有力的。应该从对这些调查结果的“理性”评估中得出政策含义，因为“不采取任何行动”本身就是一种行动。
The questioned link between air pollution and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spreading or related mortality represents a hot topic that has immediately been regarded in the light of divergent views. A first “school of thought” advocates that what matters are only standard epidemiological variables (i.e. frequency of interactions in proportion of the viral charge). A second school of thought argues that co-factors such as quality of air play an important role too. We analyzed available literature concerning the link between air quality, as measured by different pollutants and a number of COVID-19 outcomes, such as number of positive cases, deaths, and excess mortality rates. We reviewed several studies conducted worldwide and discussing many different methodological approaches aimed at investigating causality associations. Our paper reviewed the most recent empirical researches documenting the existence of a huge evidence produced worldwide concerning the role played by air pollution on health in general and on COVID-19 outcomes in particular. These results support both research hypotheses, i.e. long-term exposure effects and short-term consequences (including the hypothesis of particulate matter acting as viral “carrier”) according to the two schools of thought, respectively. The link between air pollution and COVID-19 outcomes is strong and robust as resulting from many different research methodologies. Policy implications should be drawn from a “rational” assessment of these findings as “not taking any action” represents an action itself.
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