Spatial analysis of COVID-19 and traffic-related air pollution in Los Angeles

doi:10.1016/j.envint.2021.106531

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. 2021 Aug:153:106531.

doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106531. Epub 2021 Mar 22.

Spatial analysis of COVID-19 and traffic-related air pollution in Los Angeles

Jonah Lipsitt¹, Alec M Chan-Golston², Jonathan Liu¹, Jason Su³, Yifang Zhu¹, Michael Jerrett⁴

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¹ Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States.
² Department of Public Health, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, University of California, Merced, CA 95343, United States.
³ Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94604, United States.
⁴ Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States; Center for Healthy Climate Solutions, Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States. Electronic address: mjerrett@ucla.edu.

PMID: 33812043
PMCID: PMC7983457
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106531

Review

Spatial analysis of COVID-19 and traffic-related air pollution in Los Angeles

Jonah Lipsitt et al. Environ Int. 2021 Aug.

. 2021 Aug:153:106531.

doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106531. Epub 2021 Mar 22.

Authors

Jonah Lipsitt¹, Alec M Chan-Golston², Jonathan Liu¹, Jason Su³, Yifang Zhu¹, Michael Jerrett⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States.
² Department of Public Health, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, University of California, Merced, CA 95343, United States.
³ Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94604, United States.
⁴ Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States; Center for Healthy Climate Solutions, Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States. Electronic address: mjerrett@ucla.edu.

PMID: 33812043
PMCID: PMC7983457
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106531

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Keywords: Air pollution; COVID-19; Environmental justice; Exposure Modeling; GIS; Spatial analysis.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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**Fig. 1**
Maps of Los Angeles County: A. NO₂ from land-use regression (LUR) model, 2016. (Map is zoomed in to demonstrate fine-resolution variability); B. COVID-19 Case rate (cases/population); C. Mortality rate (deaths/population); and D. Case-fatality rate (deaths/cases) for the period between March 16th and September 8th, 2020, depicted at the neighborhood level.

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[1] Ailshire J., García C. Unequal places: The impacts of socioeconomic and race/ethnic differences in neighborhoods. Generations. 2018;42

[2] Ailshire J., García C. Unequal places: The impacts of socioeconomic and race/ethnic differences in neighborhoods. Generations. 2018;42

[3] Almaraz M., Bai E., Wang C., Trousdell J., Conley S., Faloona I., Houlton B.Z. Agriculture is a major source of NOx pollution in California. Sci. Adv. 2018;4 doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aao3477. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

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[5] Bai L., Chen H., Hatzopoulou M., Jerrett M., Kwong J.C., Burnett R.T., Van Donkelaar A., Copes R., Martin R.V., Van Ryswyk K., Lu H., Kopp A., Weichenthal S. Exposure to ambient ultrafine particles and nitrogen dioxide and incident hypertension and diabetes. Epidemiology. 2018;29 doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000798. - DOI - PubMed

[6] Bai L., Chen H., Hatzopoulou M., Jerrett M., Kwong J.C., Burnett R.T., Van Donkelaar A., Copes R., Martin R.V., Van Ryswyk K., Lu H., Kopp A., Weichenthal S. Exposure to ambient ultrafine particles and nitrogen dioxide and incident hypertension and diabetes. Epidemiology. 2018;29 doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000798. - DOI - PubMed

[7] Banerjee A., Pasea L., Harris S., Gonzalez-Izquierdo A., Torralbo A., Shallcross L., Noursadeghi M., Pillay D., Sebire N., Holmes C., Pagel C., Wong W.K., Langenberg C., Williams B., Denaxas S., Hemingway H. Estimating excess 1-year mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic according to underlying conditions and age: a population-based cohort study. Lancet. 2020;395 doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30854-0. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[8] Banerjee A., Pasea L., Harris S., Gonzalez-Izquierdo A., Torralbo A., Shallcross L., Noursadeghi M., Pillay D., Sebire N., Holmes C., Pagel C., Wong W.K., Langenberg C., Williams B., Denaxas S., Hemingway H. Estimating excess 1-year mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic according to underlying conditions and age: a population-based cohort study. Lancet. 2020;395 doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30854-0. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[9] Beelen R., Hoek G., van den Brandt P.A., Goldbohm R.A., Fischer P., Schouten L.J., Jerrett M., Hughes E., Armstrong B., Brunekreef B. Long-term effects of traffic-related air pollution on mortality in a Dutch cohort (NLCS-AIR study) Environ. Health Perspect. 2008;116:196–202. doi: 10.1289/ehp.10767. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[10] Beelen R., Hoek G., van den Brandt P.A., Goldbohm R.A., Fischer P., Schouten L.J., Jerrett M., Hughes E., Armstrong B., Brunekreef B. Long-term effects of traffic-related air pollution on mortality in a Dutch cohort (NLCS-AIR study) Environ. Health Perspect. 2008;116:196–202. doi: 10.1289/ehp.10767. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

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