by: Damon Hines, staff writer | May 4, 2020
(NaturalHealth365) Could having slightly cleaner air in Manhattan save hundreds of lives? What about the lives of people in Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna, where air pollution levels aren’t just some of the worst in Italy, but some of the worst in Europe?
Much has been made about the global drop in air pollution since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic – quarantine protocols, airline cancellations, and an overall decline in trade have helped the environment – but, little has been said about how air pollution affects the threat of COVID-19.
Until now.
According to a study published in Environmental Pollution, researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark and the University of Siena in Italy found a clear correlation between air pollution and death rates from COVID-19 in Italy.
Dirty little secret: Air pollution makes COVID-19 worse
Long before the coronavirus, air pollution killed approximately seven million people a year. Evidence is now emerging that dirty air makes COVID-19 more lethal, or as Francesca Dominici, a Harvard