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Re:SARS-CoV-2 was already spreading in France in late Decemb... by rogerkirkness on Monday May 04, 2020 @05:22PM (#23073441)
Look at a map of NO pollution and overlay covid outcomes. It isn't nearly as bad if you have high vitamin D (Vegas) and low NO pollution (mountains only on one side = good).
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Re:SARS-CoV-2 was already spreading in France in late Decemb... by DangerousPie on Monday May 04, 2020 @05:33PM (#23073572)
Is there a study that actually convincingly showed this? Both pollution and infectious disease spread are clearly correlated with population density, so the fact that you see more covid deaths in places with a lot of pollution doesn't mean much unless you statistically control for other effects.
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Re:SARS-CoV-2 was already spreading in France in late Decemb... by xenonite on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @11:51AM (#23092412)
Yes: "an increase of 1 μg/m3 in PM2.5 is associated with an 8% increase in the COVID-19 death rate (95% confidence interval [CI]: 2%, 15%)." https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/covid-pm
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Re:SARS-CoV-2 was already spreading in France in late Decemb... by renewiltord on Monday May 04, 2020 @09:22PM (#23075377)
India has hecka pollution and they have low deaths. We can discount their government's ability to register deaths but they can't hide bodies and right now there aren't massive amounts of bodies coming out.
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Re:SARS-CoV-2 was already spreading in France in late Decemb... by slooonz on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @05:31AM (#23078125)
Isn’t just low NO pollution = low pollution = low population density ?
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Re:SARS-CoV-2 was already spreading in France in late Decemb... by xenonite on Monday May 04, 2020 @05:41PM (#23073651)
May I ask for the reason of taking a NO map instead of, say, a NOx map?
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