COVID-19, Air Pollution, and Racial Inequity: Connecting the Dots

Tanujit Dey; Francesca Dominici

doi:10.1021/acs.chemrestox.0c00432

COVID-19, Air Pollution, and Racial Inequity: Connecting the Dots

Chem Res Toxicol. 2021 Mar 15;34(3):669-671. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.0c00432. Epub 2020 Dec 30.

Authors

Tanujit Dey¹, Francesca Dominici²

Affiliations

¹ Center for Surgery and Public Health, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02120, United States.
² Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02446, United States.

PMID: 33377385
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.0c00432

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic is a public health emergency. Exposure to air pollution represents a serious health issue in overall mortality worldwide. The health risks of some racial subgroups are spiraling as they have higher levels of exposure to air pollutants, hence being more susceptible to mortality from COVID-19.

MeSH terms

Air Pollution / adverse effects*
Black or African American
COVID-19 / epidemiology*
COVID-19 / ethnology
Health Services Accessibility
Health Status Disparities*
Humans
Pandemics
Race Factors*
SARS-CoV-2
Social Determinants of Health / ethnology
Socioeconomic Factors
White People