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Rising concentrations of particulate pollutants in the air is directly associated with a rise in CoVid infections.  Researchers in Hong Kong, Britain, and Israel draw this conclusion after analyzing data from 18 Chinese provincial capital cities including Wuhan.

Pooling data from all studied cities, there was a significant trend between concentration of 2.5 micron particulate matter in the air, known as PM2.5, and the rate of change in CoVid infections.  Looking only at the numbers from Wuhan, the epicenter of the Chinese CoVid epidemic, the effect of air pollution on CoVid infection rates was even more dramatic.

This study suggests that air pollution as well as population density is driving CoVid spread.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.19.20106484v3.full.pdf+html

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