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A former blog from Medium for Covid-19 news, advice, and commentary. Currently inactive and not taking submissions.

A Link Between Air Pollution and Coronavirus Outcomes

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As Robert Roy Britt reports in Elemental, increases in pollution due to a federal relaxation of air quality standards in March led to increases in Covid-19 deaths in some the most industrialized areas of the United States, new research suggests. Studies are also suggesting that people who live in the most polluted areas of the United States are more likely to get Covid-19 and suffer more severe symptoms. Read the full story below.

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Medium Coronavirus Blog
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Published in Medium Coronavirus Blog

A former blog from Medium for Covid-19 news, advice, and commentary. Currently inactive and not taking submissions.

Alexandra Sifferlin
Alexandra Sifferlin

Written by Alexandra Sifferlin

Health and science journalist. Former editor of Medium’s Covid-19 Blog and deputy editor at Elemental. TIME Magazine writer before that