Higher Covid-19 death toll in pollution hotspots points to environmental factor in pandemic, study finds

Long-term exposure to air pollution could be an “important contributor” to the death of Covid-19 patients, according to a study out of Germany.

Coronavirus science latest: vaccines, treatments, reinfection and researchNitrogen dioxide is a pollutant usually produced by cars, power plants and other industrial facilities and NO2 concentration is thought to exacerbate respiratory illnesses such as asthma. “These results indicate that the long-term exposure to this pollutant may be one of the most important contributors to fatality caused by the Covid-19 virus in these regions and maybe across the whole world.”

To better identify the common factor that could explain the fatalities, Ogen collected data from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-5P satellite. It gave a global picture of air pollution caused by nitrogen dioxide and other pollutants.

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