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Editorial
. 2020 Jul;146(1):61-63.
doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2020.04.035. Epub 2020 May 7.

Air pollution, racial disparities, and COVID-19 mortality

Eric B Brandt  1 , Andrew F Beck  2 , Tesfaye B Mersha  3
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Editorial

Air pollution, racial disparities, and COVID-19 mortality

Eric B Brandt et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2020 Jul.
No abstract available

Keywords: African American; COVID-19; Latino; NO(2); PM(2.5); SARS-CoV-2; air pollution; black; coronavirus; minorities; racial disparity.

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Impact of air pollution and racial disparities on COVID-19 mortality. Racial breakdown of COVID-19 data as of April 24, 2020, was obtained from APM Research Lab (https://www.apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-by-race). Additional racial disparity sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/07/coronavirus-is-infecting-killing-black-americans-an-alarmingly-high-rate-post-analysis-shows/; https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/nyregion/coronavirus-race-deaths.html; http://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-chicago-coronavirus-deaths-demographics-lightfoot-20200406-77nlylhiavgjzb2wa4ckivh7mu-story.html. Average PM2.5 concentrations (g/m3) for the years 2000 to 2016 were obtained from Atmospheric Composition Analysis (http://fizz.phys.dal.ca/∼atmos/martin). Figures were created by merging county-level data in a given state. The county-level COVID-19 death counts, adjusted for a population of 1 million, as of April 24, 2020, were obtained from Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 Case Tracker: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu. COVID-19 risk factors are based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s insights (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/people-at-higher-risk.html). COPD, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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