Air pollution aggravating COVID-19 lethality? Exploration in Asian cities using statistical models

Ankit Gupta, Hemant Bherwani (), Sneha Gautam, Saima Anjum, Kavya Musugu, Narendra Kumar, Avneesh Anshul and Rakesh Kumar
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Ankit Gupta: CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)
Hemant Bherwani: CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)
Sneha Gautam: Karunya Institute of Technology and Science
Saima Anjum: CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)
Kavya Musugu: CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)
Narendra Kumar: CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)
Avneesh Anshul: CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)
Rakesh Kumar: CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, 2021, vol. 23, issue 4, No 78, 6408-6417

Abstract: Abstract The present work estimates the increased risk of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 by establishing the linkage between the mortality rate in the infected cases and the air pollution, specifically Particulate Matters (PM) with aerodynamic diameters ≤ 10 µm and ≤ 2.5 µm. Data related to nine Asian cities are analyzed using statistical approaches, including the analysis of variance and regression model. The present work suggests that there exists a positive correlation between the level of air pollution of a region and the lethality related to COVID-19, indicating air pollution to be an elemental and concealed factor in aggravating the global burden of deaths related to COVID-19. Past exposures to high level of PM2.5 over a long period, is found to significantly correlate with present COVID-19 mortality per unit reported cases (p

Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; Air pollution; PM2.5; PM10; Linear regression; SARS-CoV-2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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