Open AccessAir Pollution Can Worsen the Death Rate from COVID-19
Author(s) -
Tim Hornyak
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2020eo142660
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pollution , mortality rate , air pollution , environmental science , environmental health , virology , medicine , demography , biology , sociology , ecology , outbreak , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology
Scientists find that highly polluted counties in the United States will have a COVID-19 death rate 4.5 times higher than those with low pollution if they’re otherwise similar.