ReviewAnnual review of public health2022
Environmental Factors Influencing COVID-19 Incidence and Severity.
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84 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 170 citations in OpenAlex.
- Association of Particulate Matter (PM2.5) With COVID-19 Infection and Mortality in Low-and Middle-income Asian Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2026Pooled it
- Impact of air pollution on COVID-19 severity: a systematic review of underlying biological mechanisms.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of the built environment and human factors on the spread of COVID-19: A systematic literature review.The Science of the total environment · 2022Pooled it
- Oral Probenecid for Nonhospitalized Adults with Symptomatic Mild-to-Moderate COVID-19.Viruses · 2023Trial
- Temporal-spatial analysis and driving factors of coupling coordination between population and health services systems in China, 2010-2022.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Causal inference for targeted public health interventions: interactions among environmental, social, and economic determinants within the one health framework.Journal of water and health · 2026Review
- Features of the land use and COVID-19 cases and deaths in urban and land counties in Poland throughout the pandemic: a machine learning approach.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Ambient Air Pollution and COVID-19 in California.Research report (Health Effects Institute) · 2026Article
- The urban infection susceptibility index and its application in cities of China.Biosafety and health · 2026Article
- Spatial and neighborhood data in the collaborative cohort of cohorts for COVID-19 Research (C4R).PloS one · 2026Observational
- Transcriptomic profiling reveals immune signatures associated with potential COVID-19 susceptibility and a predictive framework in a Chinese cohort.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Bronchial Hyperreactivity in the COVID-19 Era: The Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 Vaccination in Patients with Respiratory Symptoms.Journal of asthma and allergy · 2026Article
- Unlocking the power of time-since-infection models: data augmentation for improved instantaneous reproduction number estimation.Biostatistics (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Systematic Determinants of Global COVID-19 Burden: Longitudinal Time-Series Analysis Using Big Data-Driven Artificial Intelligence.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Integrative Neuroimmune Role of the Parasympathetic Nervous System, Vagus Nerve and Gut Microbiota in Stress Modulation: A Narrative Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Emerging contaminants in healthcare effluents: antibiotic resistance and virulence factor dissemination.Folia microbiologica · 2025Review
- Consideration of Cardiovascular Morbidities in the Relationship between Ambient Air Pollution Exposure and Individual-Level Adverse COVID-19 Outcomes: A Systematic Review.Current epidemiology reports · 2025Article
- Chronic respiratory diseases risk during the COVID-19 pandemic: an integrated modelling approach based on hospital records across 30 countries.Population health metrics · 2025Article
- Revealing associations between exposure to cyanobacteria toxins and COVID-19 outcomes in Colorado.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Trace Mineral Imbalances in Global Health: Challenges, Biomarkers, and the Role of Serum Analysis.Nutrients · 2025Review
24 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Emerging evidence supports a link between environmental factors-including air pollution and chemical exposures, climate, and the built environment-and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) susceptibility and severity. Climate, air pollution, and the built environment have long been recognized to influence viral respiratory infections, and studies have established similar associations with COVID-19 outcomes. More limited evidence links chemical exposures to COVID-19. Environmental factors were found to influence COVID-19 through four major interlinking mechanisms: increased risk of preexisting conditions associated with disease severity; immune system impairment; viral survival and transport; and behaviors that increase viral exposure. Both data and methodologic issues complicate the investigation of these relationships, including reliance on coarse COVID-19 surveillance data; gaps in mechanistic studies; and the predominance of ecological designs. We evaluate the strength of evidence for environment-COVID-19 relationships and discuss environmental actions that might simultaneously address the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental determinants of health, and health disparities.
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