Co-distribution of Light At Night (LAN) and COVID-19 incidence in the United States

Meng, Yidan; Zhu, Vincent; Zhu, Yong

doi:10.1186/s12889-021-11500-6

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“…When the COVID-19 pandemic reoccurred in January 2021, only Shijiazhuang and Xingtai reported many infected cases, while the other cities had only one, or even no, cases, in which the lockdown and control measures only had a significant impact on NTL in the pandemic cities, so the number of new infections was not correlated with the total monthly NTL, as shown in Figure 10c,d. Therefore, the number of infected cases during the lockdown period was positively correlated with NTL, whereas the two were not correlated during the reopening period or in the case of a pandemic in a few cities, and our findings are consistent with the result of Meng et al and Zhang et al [50,51].…”

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Assessment of Economic Recovery in Hebei Province, China, under the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Nighttime Light Data

Zhang

et al. 2022

Remote Sensing

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The COVID-19 pandemic has presented unprecedented disruptions to human society worldwide since late 2019, and lockdown policies in response to the pandemic have directly and drastically decreased human socioeconomic activities. To quantify and assess the extent of the pandemic’s impact on the economy of Hebei Province, China, nighttime light (NTL) data, vegetation information, and provincial quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) data were jointly utilized to estimate the quarterly GDP for prefecture-level cities and county-level cities. Next, an autoregressive integrated moving average model (ARIMA) model was applied to predict the quarterly GDP for 2020 and 2021. Finally, economic recovery intensity (ERI) was used to assess the extent of economic recovery in Hebei Province during the pandemic. The results show that, at the provincial level, the economy of Hebei Province had not yet recovered; at the prefectural and county levels, three prefectures and forty counties were still struggling to restore their economies by the end of 2021, even though these economies, as a whole, were gradually recovering. In addition, the number of new infected cases correlated positively with the urban NTL during the pandemic period, but not during the post-pandemic period. The study results are informative for local government’s strategies and policies for allocating financial resources for urban economic recovery in the short- and long-term.

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Assessment of Economic Recovery in Hebei Province, China, under the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Nighttime Light Data

Zhang

et al. 2022

Remote Sensing

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“…Exposure to bright ALAN can alter the optimum refractive state of the accommodating eye [101] and affect the diurnal variation in choroidal thickness [102], thus increasing the risk of myopia. Current studies also provide some insights into ALAN's health effects on other organ systems, covering renal dysfunction [103,104], fibromyalgia [105], sperm quality [106], bone fracture [107], and COVID-19 infections [108]. However, these are pilot studies that need more subsequent support.…”

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Linking Artificial Light at Night with Human Health via a Multi-Component Framework: A Systematic Evidence Map

Liu

Wang

et al. 2023

Environments

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The effects of artificial light at night (ALAN) on human health have drawn increased attention in the last two decades. Numerous studies have discussed the effects of ALAN on human health on diverse topics. A broader scope of how ALAN may affect human health is thus urgently needed. This paper depicts a systematic evidence map in a multi-component framework to link ALAN with human health through a comprehensive literature review of English research articles in the past two decades. A three-phase systematic review was conducted after a generalized search of relevant articles from three publication databases, namely Scopus, the Web of Science, and PubMed. In total, 552 research articles were found in four categories and on numerous topics within our framework. We cataloged the evidence that shows direct and indirect as well as positive and negative effects of ALAN on human physical and mental health. We also summarized the studies that consider ALAN as a social determinant of human health. Based on our framework and the systematic evidence map, we also suggest several promising directions for future studies, including method design, co-exposure and exposome studies, and social and environmental justice.

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Molecular mechanisms of artificial light at night affecting circadian rhythm disturbance

Lei,

Hua,

et al. 2023

Arch Toxicol

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Co-distribution of Light At Night (LAN) and COVID-19 incidence in the United States

Cited by 6 publications

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Assessment of Economic Recovery in Hebei Province, China, under the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Nighttime Light Data

Assessment of Economic Recovery in Hebei Province, China, under the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Nighttime Light Data

Linking Artificial Light at Night with Human Health via a Multi-Component Framework: A Systematic Evidence Map

Molecular mechanisms of artificial light at night affecting circadian rhythm disturbance

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