Bidirectional association between COVID-19 and the environment: A systematic review

Rahimi, Nayereh Rezaie; Fouladi-Fard, Reza; Aali, Rahim; Shahryari, Ali; Rezaali, Mostafa; Ghafouri, Yadollah; Ghalhari, Mohammad Rezvani; Asadi-Ghalhari, Mahdi; Farzinnia, Babak; Gea, Oliveri Conti; Fiore, Maria

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2020.110692

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“…Evaluation of current treatments for wastewater and sewage sludge, as well as the eventual development of new specific techniques for controlling the environmental dissemination of these viruses in the current and eventual future outbreaks. 1 Rahimi et al (2021) Different environmental matrices impacted by COVID-19 were examined: air, wastewater, water, solid waste, fomites, and secondary environment. Airborne route of transmission requires to be deepened.…”

Section: Impact Of Covid-19 Pandemic On the Environment And Biotamentioning

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The COVID-19 pandemic and its implications on the environment

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Caruso

2021

Environmental Research

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The emerging threat posed by COVID-19 pandemic has strongly modified our lifestyle, making urgent to re-consider the humans-environment relationships and stimulating towards more sustainable choices in our daily behavior. Scientific evidences showed that the onset of new viral pathogens with a high epidemic-pandemic potential is often the result of complex interactions between animals, humans and environment. In this context, the interest of the scientific community has also been attracted towards the potential interactions of SARS-CoV-2 with environmental compartments. Many issues, ranging from the epidemiology and persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in water bodies to the potential implications of lockdown measures on environmental quality status are here reviewed, with a special reference to marine ecosystems. Due to current sanitary emergence, the relevance of pilot studies regarding the interactions between SARS-CoV-2 spread and the direct and indirect environmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, that are still a matter of scientific debate, is underlined.

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Section: Impact Of Covid-19 Pandemic On the Environment And Biotamentioning

confidence: 99%

The COVID-19 pandemic and its implications on the environment

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Caruso

2021

Environmental Research

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“…A similar statement can be made for temperature while holding other factors constant; a unit increase in temperature would lead to −45.4 % = exp (−0.605) – exp (0), indicating a reduction in the relative risks. Several studies confirm that under higher temperature, the spread of COVID-19 tends to be slower (i.e., the virus remains active at low temperature), implying the mitigating effect against the survival and transmission of the virus ( Anand, Cabreros, et al, 2020 ; Rahimi et al, 2021 ; Sarkodie and Owusu, 2020 ; Xie and Zhu, 2020 ). In line with them, our study also verifies the negative influence of temperature on COVID-19 transmission.…”

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“…Numerous scholars have attempted to understand the COVID-19 infectious disease from various perspectives such as the socio-demography ( Sannigrahi et al, 2020 ), changes in air quality after lockdown ( Park et al, 2020 ; Shen et al, 2021 ; Xu et al, 2020 ), environmental conditions ( Bashir et al, 2020 ), air pollution ( Wu et al, 2020a ), spatial dependency ( Briz-Redón and Serrano-Aroca, 2020 ), and spatiotemporal correlation ( Elson et al, 2021 ; Sartorius et al, 2021 ), to name a few. In addition, significant effort has been devoted to investigating various facets of transmission dynamics of COVID-19, including human-to-human diffusion mechanism ( Anand, Cabreros, et al, 2021a , 2021b ; Bontempi, 2020a ), environment-to-human transmission ( Bashir et al, 2020 ; Coccia, 2020a ; Rahimi et al, 2021 ; Sarkodie and Owusu, 2020 ), and pollution-to-human transmission ( Domingo et al, 2020 ; Maleki et al, 2021 ). To account for human-to-human diffusion mechanism, some researchers have considered non-pharmaceutical behaviors and policy-based strategy such as restriction measures ( Chen et al, 2021 ; Coccia, 2021c ), while others have examined the role of socio-economic factors including commercial exchange ( Bontempi, 2020a ), GDP ( Coccia, 2021d ; Islam et al, 2021 ), and population density ( Diao et al, 2020 ; Coccia, 2021b ).…”

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“…To account for human-to-human diffusion mechanism, some researchers have considered non-pharmaceutical behaviors and policy-based strategy such as restriction measures ( Chen et al, 2021 ; Coccia, 2021c ), while others have examined the role of socio-economic factors including commercial exchange ( Bontempi, 2020a ), GDP ( Coccia, 2021d ; Islam et al, 2021 ), and population density ( Diao et al, 2020 ; Coccia, 2021b ). Regarding environment-to-human as well as pollution-to-human transmission mechanisms, several researchers have studied the association between COVID-19 transmission and meteorological factors such as temperature ( Xie and Zhu, 2020 ; Islam et al, 2021 ), humidity ( Haque and Rahman, 2020 ; Diao et al, 2020 ), and wind speed ( Coccia, 2020a , 2020c , 2021b , 2020c ), and pollution factors including air pollutants ( Barakat et al, 2020 ; Copat et al, 2020 ; Hoang et al, 2021 ) and wastewater ( Anand, Cabreros, et al, 2021a , 2021b ; Rahimi et al, 2021 ). It is worth noting that, however, the mechanisms underlying the airborne transport of COVID-19 have not been fully elucidated.…”

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Exploring the effects of PM2.5 and temperature on COVID-19 transmission in Seoul, South Korea

Lym¹,

Kim

2022

Environmental Research

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With a recent surge of the new severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2, COVID-19) in South Korea, this study attempts to investigate the effects of environmental conditions such as air pollutants (PM 2.5 ) and meteorological covariate (Temperature) on COVID-19 transmission in Seoul. To account for unobserved heterogeneity in the daily confirmed cases of COVID-19 across 25 contiguous districts within Seoul, we adopt a full Bayesian hierarchical approach for the generalized linear mixed models. A formal statistical analysis suggests that there exists a positive correlation between a 7-day lagged effect of PM 2.5 concentration and the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, which implies an elevated risk of the infectious disease. Conversely, temperature has shown a negative correlation with the number of COVID-19 cases, leading to reduction in relative risks. In addition, we clarify that the random fluctuation in the relative risks of COVID-19 mainly originates from temporal aspects, whereas no significant evidence of variability in relative risks is observed in terms of spatial alignment of the 25 districts. Nevertheless, this study provides empirical evidence using model-based formal assessments regarding COVID-19 infection risks in 25 districts of Seoul from a different perspective.

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“…Scholars described some factors in society driven by the interaction between air pollution (Razzaq et al 2020 ; Coccia 2021a ; Coccia 2021b ) and meteorological factors (Coccia 2020b ; Irfan et al 2021a ), especially for NO 2 and PM 2.5 (Iqbal et al 2021 ). Rahimi et al ( 2021 ) found that the bidirectional association between COVID-19 and the environment and appealed countries need to pay extra attention to sustainable development themes and goals. Such studies provide a reference for improving epidemic prevention and control policies.…”

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System dynamics analysis of COVID-19 prevention and control strategies

Jia

Fang

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The COVID-19 pandemic now affects the entire world and has many major effects on the global economy, environment, health, and society. Focusing on the harm COVID-19 poses for human health and society, this study used system dynamics to establish a prevention and control model that combines material supply, public opinion dissemination, public awareness, scientific and technological research, staggered work shifts, and the warning effect (of law/policy). Causal loop analysis was used to identify interactions between subsystems and explore the key factors affecting social benefit. Further, different scenarios were dynamically simulated to explore optimal combination modes. The main findings were as follows: (1) The low supervision mode will produce a lag effect and superimposed effect on material supply and impede social benefit. (2) The strong supervision mode has multiple performances; it can reduce online public opinion dissemination and the rate of concealment and false declaration and improve government credibility and social benefit. However, a fading effect will appear in the middle and late periods, and over time, the effect of strong supervision will gradually weaken (but occasionally rebound) and thus require adjustment. These findings can provide a theoretical basis for improving epidemic prevention and control measures.

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Bidirectional association between COVID-19 and the environment: A systematic review

Cited by 94 publications

References 110 publications

The COVID-19 pandemic and its implications on the environment

The COVID-19 pandemic and its implications on the environment

Exploring the effects of PM2.5 and temperature on COVID-19 transmission in Seoul, South Korea

System dynamics analysis of COVID-19 prevention and control strategies

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