ArticleEnvironmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)2022
Long-term air pollution and COVID-19 mortality rates in California: Findings from the Spring/Summer and Winter surges of COVID-19.
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- Independent associations of short- and long-term air pollution exposure with COVID-19 mortality among Californians.Environmental advances · 2022Article
- Association between long-term exposure to particulate air pollution with SARS-CoV-2 infections and COVID-19 deaths in California, U.S.A.Environmental advances · 2022Article
- Association between air pollution and COVID-19 disease severity via Bayesian multinomial logistic regression with partially missing outcomes.Environmetrics · 2022Article
- COVID-19: Regional Differences in Austria.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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A growing number of studies report associations between air pollution and COVID-19 mortality. Most were ecological studies at the county or regional level which disregard important local variability and relied on data from only the first few months of the pandemic. Using COVID-19 deaths identified from death certificates in California, we evaluated whether long-term ambient air pollution was related to weekly COVID-19 mortality at the census tract-level during the first ∼12 months of the pandemic. Weekly COVID-19 mortality for each census tract was calculated based on geocoded death certificate data. Annual average concentrations of ambient particulate matter <2.5 μm (PM
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