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Association between PM2.5 air pollution, temperature, and sunlight during different infectious stages with the case fatality of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom: a modeling study
Md. Pear Hossain
Wen Zhou
Yu-Ting Leung
Hsiang_Yu Yuan
Acceso Abierto
Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas
https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.07.23288300
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.07.23288300v1
Although the relationship between the environmental factors such as weather conditions and air pollution and COVID-19 case fatality rate (CFR) has been found, the impacts of these factors to which infected cases are exposed at different infectious stages (e.g., virus exposure time, incubation period, and at or after symptom onset) are still unknown. Understanding this link can help reduce mortality rates. During the first wave of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom (UK), the CFR varied widely between and among the four countries of the UK, allowing such differential impacts to be assessed. We developed a generalized linear mixed-effect model combined with distributed lag nonlinear models to estimate the odds ratio of the weather factors (i.e., temperature, sunlight, relative humidity, and rainfall) and air pollution (i.e., ozone, NO2, SO2, CO, PM10 and PM2.5) using data between March 26, 2020 and May 12, 2020 in the UK. After retrospectively time adjusted CFR was estimated using back-projection technique, the stepwise model selection method was used to choose the best model based on Akaike information criteria (AIC) and the closeness between the predicted and observed values of CFR. We found that the low temperature (8-11°C), prolonged sunlight duration (11-13hours) and increased PM2.5 (11-18 μg/m3) after the incubation period posed a greater risk of death (measured by odds ratio (OR)) than the earlier infectious stages. The risk reached its maximum level when the low temperature occurred one day after (OR = 1.76; 95% CI: 1.10-2.81), prolonged sunlight duration 2-3 days after (OR = 1.50; 95% CI: 1.03-2.18) and increased P.M2.5 at the onset of symptom (OR =1.72; 95% CI: 1.30-2.26). In contrast, prolonged sunlight duration showed a protective effect during the incubation period or earlier. After reopening, many COVID-19 cases will be identified after their symptoms appear. The findings highlight the importance of designing different preventive measures against severe illness or death considering the time before and after symptom onset.
bioRxiv
09-04-2023
Preimpreso
https://www.biorxiv.org
Inglés
Público en general
VIRUS RESPIRATORIOS
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