In areas with high air pollution kills more people Covid-19 as elsewhere – the message itself may not be a surprise really. That fine dust and Smog pollute the respiratory tract and cause harm, is a well-studied fact. And also, that Covid-19-diseases run in people with previously damaged lung is often difficult and deadly, is now a proven certainty.
Bad air, many seriously ill patients, high medical need,
Nevertheless, the study, which was conducted at the School of Public Health, Harvard University, deserves the highest attention. It not only proves the high risk of the population living in air-polluted regions. It also shows, where health authorities and medical professionals on high the case of severe disease should gradients will be prepared, where so many hospital beds, intensive courses, and ventilation equipment required.
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scientists in the field of medical statistics for this, the measured fine dust load in 3080 government districts (county) across the United States with the respective number of deaths due to Covid-19. Your model bill refers to data up to 4. April with a. < / h3> Reported corona virus cases in Germany (click on your state)
1 micrograms of fine-dust makes a difference
taking into account various other risk variables, the Team led by Francesca Dominici came to the conclusion that The likelihood of death at Covid-19, is located in heavily polluted areas, by 15 percent higher than in regions with only a micro gram of fine dust per cubic meter of air.
A high level of air pollution has different causes: it is in the Central Valley of California due to intensive agriculture, in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, by the exhaust gases of coal-fired power plants. In both regions, a disproportionately high number of severely ill Covid be expected-19-patients, predicts head of the study Dominici.
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Already in the case of Sars, air pollution played a tragic role
the fact is that the microscope will attack small pollution particles from the exhaust gases of the lung tissue, unnoticed cause inflammation and this in the long term, reduce the ability to cope with infections of the respiratory tract ready. As a result, the risk for lung cancer or cardiovascular-increases illnesses and vulnerability to severe Covid-19-disease.
during the Sars epidemic in 2003, researchers found that in areas of China with high levels of air pollution are twice as many people died of the lung disease than in regions with cleaner air. All the important messages to the Coronavirus in the FOCUS Online Newsletter. Subscribe now.
High air standards, even after the pandemic is urgently needed
the researchers say with a look into the future: “the results of The study underline how important it is, existing regulations with regard to the fine dust pollution for the protection of health during and after the Covid-19-crisis consistently enforce.”
In an article In the New York Times will be addressed in the context of the Harvard study, the reduction in environmental provisions of the Trump-government, which should be reconsidered after this first study strongly. The easing of the requirements for the benefit of the industry in the US even without the Corona lead to a crisis of premature deaths, warns about the EPA. It has approved the relaxations, however, just himself, a concession to the domestic industry in the Corona-crisis. Product recommendation (display)
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