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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

The Effect of Lockdown Period during the COVID-19 Pandemic on Air Quality in Sydney Region, Australia.

Hiep Duc, David Salter, Merched Azzi, Ningbo Jiang, Loredana Warren, Sean Watt, Matthew Riley, Stephen White, Toan Trieu, Lisa Tzu-Chi Chang and 3 more

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Air Quality: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
    Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Reduction in preterm birth rates during and after the COVID-19 lockdown in Queensland Australia.The Australian & New Zealand journal of obstetrics & gynaecology · 2022
    Article
  4. Article
  5. The Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns in Istanbul.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
    Article
  6. Impact of lockdowns on paediatric asthma hospital presentations over three waves of COVID-19 pandemic.Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2022
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Hiep DucDepartment of Planning, Industry and Environment, P.O. Box 29, Lidcombe, NSW 2141, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-6658-4382
David SalterDepartment of Planning, Industry and Environment, P.O. Box 29, Lidcombe, NSW 2141, Australia.
Merched AzziDepartment of Planning, Industry and Environment, P.O. Box 29, Lidcombe, NSW 2141, Australia.
Ningbo JiangDepartment of Planning, Industry and Environment, P.O. Box 29, Lidcombe, NSW 2141, Australia.
Loredana WarrenDepartment of Planning, Industry and Environment, P.O. Box 29, Lidcombe, NSW 2141, Australia.
Sean WattDepartment of Planning, Industry and Environment, P.O. Box 29, Lidcombe, NSW 2141, Australia.
Matthew RileyDepartment of Planning, Industry and Environment, P.O. Box 29, Lidcombe, NSW 2141, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-9181-782X
Stephen WhiteDepartment of Planning, Industry and Environment, P.O. Box 29, Lidcombe, NSW 2141, Australia.
Toan TrieuDepartment of Planning, Industry and Environment, P.O. Box 29, Lidcombe, NSW 2141, Australia.
Lisa Tzu-Chi ChangDepartment of Planning, Industry and Environment, P.O. Box 29, Lidcombe, NSW 2141, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-4127-6065
Xavier BarthelemyDepartment of Planning, Industry and Environment, P.O. Box 29, Lidcombe, NSW 2141, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0285-0116
David FuchsDepartment of Planning, Industry and Environment, P.O. Box 29, Lidcombe, NSW 2141, Australia.
Huynh NguyenDepartment of Planning, Industry and Environment, P.O. Box 29, Lidcombe, NSW 2141, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In early 2020 from April to early June, the metropolitan area of Sydney as well as the rest of New South Wales (NSW, Australia) experienced a period of lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19 virus in the community. The effect of reducing anthropogenic activities including transportation had an impact on the urban environment in terms of air quality which is shown to have improved for a number of pollutants, such as Nitrogen Dioxides (NO

Indexed as

Air PollutantsAir PollutionCOVID-19AustraliaCommunicable Disease ControlEnvironmental MonitoringHumansNew South WalesPandemicsParticulate MatterSARS-CoV-2Air PollutantsParticulate Matterair qualityCOVID-19 lockdowngreater mtropolitan region of SydneyWRF-CMAQ

Identifiers

PMID33805343
PMCPMC8036299

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