This paper presents empirical results on coronavirus fatality rates from cross-country regressions for OECD countries … constant. We find that the share of the aged population, obesity rates, and local air pollution levels have a positive effect … results suggest that improving local air quality helps reduce the negative effects of a coronavirus pandemic significantly. …

This paper presents empirical results on coronavirus infection and fatality rates from cross-country regressions for … local air pollution on infection rates in the whole sample and on fatality rates for OECD countries. Obesity rates have a … higher mortality rates, revealing the lack of experience and medical capacity to deal with the pandemic in an initial phase …

The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature … suggests that exposure to pollution can cause respiratory illness and increase deaths among the elderly, little is known about … whether increases in pollution could cause additional or more severe infections from COVID-19, which typically manifests as a …

promote increased severity of COVID-19 syndrome caused by the novel coronavirus. In this paper, we empirically investigate the … to urbanization that may have influenced the spreading of the novel coronavirus. Our epidemiological analysis uses … mortality have a similar spatial distribution. Preliminary evidence confirms the hypothesis and suggests a positive association …

mortality using an instrumental variable approach based on wind direction. Harnessing daily changes in county-level wind … robust to a host of sensitivity tests. These results suggest that air pollution plays an important role in mediating the …

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany … patients (80+ years): higher levels of air pollution by one standard deviation 3 to 12 days after developing symptoms increase … deaths by 30 percent (males) and 35 percent (females) of the mean. In addition, air pollution raises the number of confirmed …

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany … patients (80+ years): higher levels of air pollution by one standard deviation 3 to 12 days after developing symptoms increase … deaths by 30 percent (males) and 35 percent (females) of the mean. In addition, air pollution raises the number of confirmed …

pollution, represented by carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emission levels in the atmosphere. The article makes a statistical …