{"id":5649,"date":"2020-04-03T15:21:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T22:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5649"},"modified":"2021-03-03T15:22:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:22:34","slug":"ambient-nitrogen-dioxide-pollution-and-spread-ability-of-covid-19-in-chinese-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/03\/ambient-nitrogen-dioxide-pollution-and-spread-ability-of-covid-19-in-chinese-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambient nitrogen dioxide pollution and spread ability of COVID-19 in Chinese cities."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yao et al report a significant association between nitrogen dioxide (NO<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) exposure and R<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, suggesting that ambient NO<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">may contribute to the spread ability of COVID-19 in this ecological study. Previous studies have suggested that the increase spread ability from NO<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> might not be caused by increased susceptibility to infection but may result from effects of NO<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on host defenses that prevent the spread of virus.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yao et al. (Mar 31, 2020). Ambient nitrogen dioxide pollution and spread ability of COVID-19 in Chinese cities. Pre-print downloaded Apr 3 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.31.20048595\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.31.20048595<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yao et al report a significant association between nitrogen dioxide (NO2) exposure and R0, suggesting that ambient NO2 may contribute to the spread ability of COVID-19 in this ecological study. Previous studies have suggested that the increase spread ability from NO2 might not be caused by increased susceptibility to infection but may result from effects&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/03\/ambient-nitrogen-dioxide-pollution-and-spread-ability-of-covid-19-in-chinese-cities\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-5649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5650,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions\/5650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5649"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}