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ArticleThe Science of the total environment2020

Changes in U.S. air pollution during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jesse D Berman, Keita Ebisu

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Article in The Science of the total environment, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 189 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

189 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jesse D BermanDivision of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, United States of America. Electronic address: berma186@umn.edu.
Keita EbisuOffice of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, CalEPA, United States of America.

Funding

Minnesota Population Center Science and Technical CoreP2CHD041023 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI THERESA LOUISE OSYPUK · 2016 to 2026
$4.3M
NICHD NIH HHS P2C HD041023
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 global pandemic has likely affected air quality due to extreme changes in human behavior. We assessed air quality during the COVID-19 pandemic for fine particulate matter (PM

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsPandemicsAir PollutantsAir PollutionBetacoronavirusCOVID-19HumansParticulate MatterPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2United StatesAir PollutantsParticulate MatterAir pollutionCOVID-19NO(2)PandemicPM(2.5)

Identifiers

PMID32512381
PMCPMC7442629

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