<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.04.20090746v1" class="">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.04.20090746v1</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>tl;dr: <span style="caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-family: "Lucida Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.699999809265137px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">County-level average NO2 concentrations were positively associated with both COVID-19 case-fatality rate and mortality rate in single-, bi-, and tri-pollutant models (p-values<0.05).</span><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font color="#191919" face="Lucida Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.699999809265137px;" class="">Sort of a double-edged sword as they’re going down right now, but would go back up once things reopen. Whoopsie.</span></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#191919" face="Lucida Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.699999809265137px;" class=""><br class=""></span></span></font></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 14.699999809265137px;" class=""><font color="#191919" face="Lucida Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><a href="https://www.space.com/nasa-satellite-air-pollution-us-northeast-coronavirus.html" class="">https://www.space.com/nasa-satellite-air-pollution-us-northeast-coronavirus.html</a></font></span></div><div class=""><font color="#191919" face="Lucida Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.699999809265137px;" class=""><br class=""></span></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#191919" face="Lucida Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.699999809265137px;" class="">Also worthy of note, this paper on the Po Valley (where Milan, and most of the Northern Italy fatalities, were): </span></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#191919" face="Lucida Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 14.699999809265137px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#191919" face="Lucida Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 14.699999809265137px;" class=""><a href="https://vitesy.com/blog/air-pollution/nitrogen-dioxide-fine-particles-po-valley-air-quality/" class="">https://vitesy.com/blog/air-pollution/nitrogen-dioxide-fine-particles-po-valley-air-quality/</a></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#191919" face="Lucida Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 14.699999809265137px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#191919" face="Lucida Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-size: 14.699999809265137px;" class="">Deirdre</span></font></div></body></html>