For a year, researchers have already confirmed, particularly in the US and Italy, that there is a direct link between the death rate from Covid-19 and air pollution with fine particles. This ratio is also very pronounced in Paris and the large cities of Lombardy, where the atmospheric air is highly charged with PM2.5 (fine particles that are less than 2.5 micrometers or millionths of a meter in diameter). “By contrast, there are very few death peaks per million inhabitants in Baden-Württemberg or North Rhine-Westphalia, where there were no or few pollution peaks.”adds Jean-Baptiste Renard, director of research at CNRS in Orléans and first author of the article published in the journal in late July. Science of general environment . His study covers 32 cities and regions in 6 European countries (Germany, Spain, France, Great Britain, Italy and the Netherlands). It was carried out in collaboration with officials from Pollutrack, a company that retrofits vans…
Source: Le Figaro
