Airborne magnetic nanoparticles may contribute to COVID-19 outbreak: Relationships in Greece and Iran
| Autor: | K. Simeonidis, C. Martinez-Boubeta |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Pollution
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Iron-bearing nanoparticles media_common.quotation_subject Air pollution Iran medicine.disease_cause Biochemistry Article Lag time Granger causality Environmental health Air Pollution Pandemic medicine Humans Magnetite Nanoparticles Pandemics General Environmental Science media_common Air Pollutants Greece SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak COVID-19 Geography Airborne Particulate Matter |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Research |
| ISSN: | 1096-0953 |
| Popis: | This work attempts to shed light on whether the COVID-19 pandemic rides on airborne pollution. In particular, a two-city study provides evidence that PM2.5 contributes to the timing and severity of the epidemic, without adjustment for confounders. The publicly available data of deaths between March and October 2020, updated it on May 30, 2021, and the average seasonal concentrations of PM2.5 pollution over the previous years in Thessaloniki, the second-largest city of Greece, were investigated. It was found that changes in coronavirus-related deaths follow changes in air pollution and that the correlation between the two data sets is maximized at the lag time of one month. Similar data from Tehran were gathered for comparison. The results of this study underscore that it is possible, if not likely, that pollution nanoparticles are related to COVID-19 fatalities (Granger causality, p Graphical abstract Image 1 |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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