ArticleJournal of environmental economics and management2021
Pandemic meets pollution: Poor air quality increases deaths by COVID-19.
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- The impact of air pollution on COVID-19 incidence, severity, and mortality: A systematic review of studies in Europe and North America.Environmental research · 2022Pooled it
- Association between short-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19: a case-crossover cohort study.BMJ open respiratory research · 2026Article
- Modulation of COVID-19 incidence by environmental stressors is variant between pre-Omicron and Omicron periods.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Explaining international differences in excess mortality due to Covid-19.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Linkage between Airborne Particulate Matter and Viral Pandemic COVID-19 in Bucharest.Microorganisms · 2023Article
- Environmental Factors Influencing the Dynamics and Evolution of COVID-19: A Systematic Review on the Study of Short-Term Ozone Exposure.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Pandemic vulnerability index of US cities: A hybrid knowledge-based and data-driven approach.Sustainable cities and society · 2023Article
- Peculiar weather patterns effects on air pollution and COVID-19 spread in Tokyo metropolis.Environmental research · 2023Observational
- Long-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 severity: A cohort study in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2023Article
- SARS-CoV-2: Air pollution highly correlated to the increase in mortality. The case of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.Infectious Disease Modelling · 2023Article
- The effects of contemporaneous air pollution on COVID-19 morbidity and mortality.Journal of environmental economics and management · 2023Article
- The Relationship Between Air Quality, Health Outcomes, and Socioeconomic Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US.GeoHealth · 2023Article
- A Literature Review of the Effects of Air Pollution on COVID-19 Health Outcomes Worldwide: Statistical Challenges and Data Visualization.Annual review of public health · 2023Review
- Do wildfires exacerbate COVID-19 infections and deaths in vulnerable communities? Evidence from California.Journal of environmental management · 2023Article
- Quantifying COVID-19's silver lining: Avoided deaths from air quality improvements in Bogotá.Journal of environmental economics and management · 2023Article
- Association between long-term air pollution exposure and COVID-19 mortality in Latin America.PloS one · 2023Article
- The association of airborne particulate matter and benzo[a]pyrene with the clinical course of COVID-19 in patients hospitalized in Poland.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2022Article
- Particulate matter and COVID-19 excess deaths: Decomposing long-term exposure and short-term effects.Ecological economics : the journal of the International Society for Ecological Economics · 2022Article
- Long-term exposure to fine particulate matter air pollution: An ecological study of its effect on COVID-19 cases and fatality in Germany.Environmental research · 2022Article
- The Role of Meteorological Variables and Aerosols in the Transmission of COVID-19 During Harmattan Season.GeoHealth · 2022Article
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Abstract
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data at the county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions. Following Deryugina et al. (2019), we instrument short-term variation in local concentrations of particulate matter (PM10) by region-specific daily variation in wind directions. We find significant positive effects of PM10 concentration on death numbers from four days before to ten days after the onset of symptoms. Specifically, for elderly patients (80+ years) an increase in ambient PM10 concentration by one standard deviation between two and four days after developing symptoms increases the number of deaths by 19 percent of a standard deviation. In addition, higher levels air pollution raise the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 for all age groups. The timing of effects surrounding the onset of illness suggests that air pollution affects the severity of already-realized infections. We discuss the implications of our results for immediate policy levers to reduce the exposure and level of ambient air pollution, as well as for cost-benefit considerations of policies aiming at sustainable longer-term reductions of pollution levels.
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