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Air Pollution May Make COVID-19 Symptoms Worse

Research linking air pollution to elevated death rates remains preliminary but scientists hope the pandemic spurs tighter air quality regulations

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    One of the preliminary studies linking air pollution to an increased COVID-19 death rate covered “more than 3,000 counties in the United States (representing 98 percent of the population)” and found that even a “small increase in long-term exposure to PM2.5 leads to a large increase in the COVID-19 death rate,”

    This is disturbing,but I don't see a way around this problem in the foreseeable future.

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