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Correlation between environmental pollution indicators and COVID-19 pandemic: A brief study in Californian context
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In December 2019, the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak was first detected in Wuhan Hubei province, China. The April 24, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) has confirmed more than 39,000 cases, including >1800 deaths. California's Governor Gavin Newsom ordered mandatory stay at home after World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic in early March. We have evaluated the correlation between environmental pollution determinants and the COVID-19 outbreak in California by using the secondary published data from the Centers for Disease Control and the Environmental Pollution Agency (EPA). We employed Spearman and Kendall correlation tests to analyze the association of PM 2.5, PM 10, SO2, NO2, Pb, VOC, and CO with COVID-19 cases in California. Our findings indicate that environmental pollutants such as PM10, PM2.5, SO2, NO2, and CO have a significant correlation with the COVID-19 epidemic in California. Overall, our study is a useful supplement to encourage regulatory bodies to promote changes in environmental policies as pollution source control can reduce the harmful effects of environmental pollutants.
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- Bashir, M. F., MA, B. J., Bilal, Komal, B., Bashir, M. A., Farooq, T. H., Iqbal, N., & Bashir, M.
- Venue
- Environmental Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-08
- Volume
- 187
- Pages
- 109652
- ISSN
- 0013-9351 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3025553603
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- 452
- References
- 19
- FWCI
- 36.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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