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ArticleEnvironmental sustainability (Singapore)2021

Climatological and social fallacies about COVID-19 pandemic.

Ambar Farooq, Uttam Kumar, Junaite Bin Gais Uddin, Muhammad Haroon U Rashid, Matoor Mohsin Gilani, Taimoor Hassan Farooq, Awais Shakoor, Matloob Ahmad

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Article in Environmental sustainability (Singapore), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Ambar Farooq *Department of Chemistry, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, 38000 Punjab Pakistan.
Uttam Kumar *College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002 Fujian People's Republic of China.
Junaite Bin Gais UddinCenter for Molecular Cell and Systems Biology, College of Life Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fujian 350002 Fuzhou, People's Republic of China.
Muhammad Haroon U RashidCollege of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002 Fujian People's Republic of China.
Matoor Mohsin GilaniCollege of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002 Fujian People's Republic of China.
Taimoor Hassan FarooqCollege of Life Science and Technology, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, 410004 Hunan People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0001-5478-1533
Awais ShakoorDepartment of Environment and Soil Sciences, University of Lleida, Avinguda Alcalde Rovira Roure 191, 25198 Lleida, Spain.
Matloob AhmadDepartment of Chemistry, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, 38000 Punjab Pakistan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has emerged as a major global challenge since 2019. With the fast rise in the infected cases and deaths worldwide, many environmental and climate-related myths and fallacies spreaded fast. These fallacies include virus cannot spread in hot and humid conditions, cold weather can inhibit the virus, drinking hot water and sunlight can help cure the COVID-19, ultraviolet (UV) disinfectant lamps and UV rays from sunlight can kill the virus, use of hairdryers and hot showers for virus prevention, etc. Social norms and mindset of the people in the world towards a pandemic are quite similar. The primary purpose of this article is to enlighten the readers regarding these climatological misconceptions and social fallacies, helping spread proper knowledge and manage the outbreak of this deadly pandemic.

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Community safetyCoronavirus (COVID-19)Environmental‐related mythsMisconceptionsPublic health

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PMID38624610
PMCPMC8136260

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