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Look at a map of NO pollution and overlay covid outcomes. It isn't nearly as bad if you have high vitamin D (Vegas) and low NO pollution (mountains only on one
by rogerkirkness 6y ago
Look at a map of NO pollution and overlay covid outcomes. It isn't nearly as bad if you have high vitamin D (Vegas) and low NO pollution (mountains only on one side = good).
- DangerousPie 6y agoIs there a study that actually convincingly showed this? Both pollution and infectious disease spread are clearly correlated with population density, so the fact that you see more covid deaths in places with a lot of pollution doesn't mean much unless you statistically control for other effects.
- xenonite 6y agoYes: "an increase of 1 μg/m3 in PM2.5 is associated with an 8% increase in the COVID-19 death rate (95% confidence interval [CI]: 2%, 15%)." https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/covid-pm https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/covid-pm
- xenonite 6y agoMay I ask for the reason of taking a NO map instead of, say, a NOx map?
- renewiltord 6y agoIndia has hecka pollution and they have low deaths. We can discount their government's ability to register deaths but they can't hide bodies and right now there aren't massive amounts of bodies coming out.
- slooonz 6y agoIsn’t just low NO pollution = low pollution = low population density ?