Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Urrutia-Pereira, Marilyn
• Mello-da-Silva, Carlos Augusto
• Solé, Dirceu

Titel

Household pollution and COVID-19: irrelevant association?

Ist Teil von

• Allergologia et immunopathologia, 2021-01, Vol.49 (1), p.146-149

Ort / Verlag

Spain: Codon Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Evidence supports the link between air pollution and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Therefore, exposure to indoor pollution (IDP) is likely to be associated with the disease. The poor, refugees, and migrant workers who live in feeble conditions are the most vulnerable. The pandemic has caused many people to remain indoors, especially at-risk individuals (e.g., the elderly, diabetics, obese, cardiac, and chronic lung disease patients). Home isolation may be an underlying factor to other health problems among these populations if the place where they are socially isolating is not adequately ventilated. Therefore, understanding the consequences of the relationship between IDP and the COVID-19 pandemic is essential.