Investigating the Relationship Between Air Quality and COVID-19 Transmission

It is hypothesized that short-term exposure to air pollution may influence the transmission of aerosolized pathogens such as COVID-19. We used data from 23 provinces in Italy to build a generalized additive model to investigate the association between the effective reproductive number of the disease...

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Published in:Journal of Data Science 2021-07, Vol.19 (3), p.485-497
Main Authors: Albrecht, Laura, Czarnecki, Paulina, Sakelaris, Bennet
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:It is hypothesized that short-term exposure to air pollution may influence the transmission of aerosolized pathogens such as COVID-19. We used data from 23 provinces in Italy to build a generalized additive model to investigate the association between the effective reproductive number of the disease and air quality while controlling for ambient environmental variables and changes in human mobility. The model finds that there is a positive, nonlinear relationship between the density of particulate matter in the air and COVID-19 transmission, which is in alignment with similar studies on other respiratory illnesses.
ISSN:1683-8602
1680-743X
1683-8602
DOI:10.6339/21-JDS1010