COVID19 & airpollution

Our recent study in assessing the effect of long term exposure to airpollution on COVID-19 morality have just been published in Environment International, you can check it here. We found some evidence of an increased COVID-19 mortality for long term exposure to NO\(_2\) (0.5% 95% CrI: -0.2% to 1.2%), whereas for PM\(_{2.5}\) the results are more uncertain (1.4% 95% CrI: -2.1% to 5.1%).

Konstantinoudis G, Padellini T, Bennett JE, Davies B, Ezzati M, Blangiardo M. Long-term exposure to air-pollution and COVID-19 mortality in England: a hierarchical spatial analysis. Environmental International (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.106316.