Covid-19 and air pollution: communicating the results of geographic correlation studies (original) (raw)
2020, Epidemiologia e prevenzione
terest in epidemiology, which has received unprecedented attention within the scientific community, as well as from the media and from decision makers. Some of the many scientific articles regarding the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak published or released in pre-print mode examined the relationship between air pollution and Covid-19 cases or deaths. They received ample media coverage, attracted public attention, and raised a debate that will presumably continue. The community of environmental epidemiologists was positively surprised by this remarkable interest, but some concerns arose from the interpretations of the results, which were not consistent with the study design. This text intends to propose some reflections regarding the messages emerged from a limited number of epidemiological studies, chosen as an example to underline the reasons for the great interest and the wide media coverage. The storm of news and information around the virus outbreak has been appropriately defined as infodem...
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