Are environmental pollution and biodiversity levels associated to the spread and mortality of COVID-19? A four-month global analysis.
Air quality
Biodiversity
COVID-19
Global
Mortality
Transmission
Journal
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
ISSN: 1873-6424
Titre abrégé: Environ Pollut
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8804476
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
15 Feb 2021
15 Feb 2021
Historique:
received:
07
09
2020
revised:
10
12
2020
accepted:
14
12
2020
pubmed:
8
1
2021
medline:
4
2
2021
entrez:
7
1
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
On March 12th, 2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 as a pandemic. The collective impact of environmental and ecosystem factors, as well as biodiversity, on the spread of COVID-19 and its mortality evolution remain empirically unknown, particularly in regions with a wide ecosystem range. The aim of our study is to assess how those factors impact on the COVID-19 spread and mortality by country. This study compiled a global database merging WHO daily case reports with other publicly available measures from January 21st to May 18th, 2020. We applied spatio-temporal models to identify the influence of biodiversity, temperature, and precipitation and fitted generalized linear mixed models to identify the effects of environmental variables. Additionally, we used count time series to characterize the association between COVID-19 spread and air quality factors. All analyses were adjusted by social demographic, country-income level, and government policy intervention confounders, among 160 countries, globally. Our results reveal a statistically meaningful association between COVID-19 infection and several factors of interest at country and city levels such as the national biodiversity index, air quality, and pollutants elements (PM
Identifiants
pubmed: 33412447
pii: S0269-7491(20)37015-9
doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.116326
pmc: PMC7752029
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Air Pollutants
0
Particulate Matter
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
116326Subventions
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : P2C HD065563
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIA NIH HHS
ID : P30 AG034424
Pays : United States
Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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