COVID-19 mortality and contemporaneous air pollution

• 04/10/2020

• Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

This paper examines the relationship between contemporaneous exposure to fine particulate matter and COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. Harnessing daily changes in county-level wind direction (within the United States), they show that fluctuations in local air quality can almost immediately impact the rate of confirmed cases and deaths from COVID-19.

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  • Infant mortali…
  • Air Pollution
  • PM 2.5
  • Coronavirus
  • United States …