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Re:The health benefits of better air by 3dee on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:28AM (#26965936)
Lately I start to wonder if the symptoms of covid-19 are worse in areas with high air polution.

India is an example but in parts of the Netherlands where we have the worst air quality in Europe, we also see this.

It's hard to tell. But having a respiratory disease in an area of bad air quality won't help you.

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Re:The health benefits of better air by satellite2 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:50AM (#26966089)
Interesting, there could be a correlation.

At the same time early in the pandemic I remember reading that being a smoker had a moderate impact in reducing COVID symptoms severity.

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Re:The health benefits of better air by FrojoS on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:06AM (#26966937)
I had read about potentially protective effects of nicotine [1], but seems like it was a fluke https://www.nature.com/articles/s41533-021-00223-1

[1] There is even a RCT on this, but no results yet https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04583410

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