{"id":6336,"date":"2020-04-28T14:28:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T21:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6336"},"modified":"2021-03-10T14:29:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T22:29:30","slug":"exposure-to-air-pollution-and-covid-19-mortality-in-the-united-states-a-nationwide-cross-sectional-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/28\/exposure-to-air-pollution-and-covid-19-mortality-in-the-united-states-a-nationwide-cross-sectional-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States: A nationwide cross-sectional study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A cross-sectional ecological study used county-level data representing 98% of the US population to investigate the association between fine particulate matter (PM<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2.5<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) and COVID-19 death.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors found a statistically significant increase of only 1 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\ud835\udf07<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">g\/m3 in PM<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2.5 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is associated with an 8% increase in the COVID-19 death rate (95% CI: 2-15%). Findings underscore the importance of continuing to enforce existing air pollution regulations to protect human health both during and after the COVID-19 crisis.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wu et al. (April 7, 2020). Exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States: A nationwide cross-sectional study. Pre-print downloaded Apr 28<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.05.20054502\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.05.20054502<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cross-sectional ecological study used county-level data representing 98% of the US population to investigate the association between fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and COVID-19 death. The authors found a statistically significant increase of only 1 \ud835\udf07g\/m3 in PM2.5 is associated with an 8% increase in the COVID-19 death rate (95% CI: 2-15%). Findings underscore the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/28\/exposure-to-air-pollution-and-covid-19-mortality-in-the-united-states-a-nationwide-cross-sectional-study\/\">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-6336","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\/6336","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=6336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6337,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336\/revisions\/6337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6336"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}