by EPHA | Apr 20, 2020 | Opinion
The strong correlation between air pollution and COVID-19 could be explained by the negative impact on the immune system. This was demonstrated for other diseases, and this is likely the case for COVID-19, too. The effect held not just for pollution levels at the time...
by European Public Health Alliance | Apr 6, 2020 | Statements
Researchers and scientists from Germany join forces to call for safe walking and cycling during the COVID-19 pandemic in an open letter and petition first appeared in German on the IASS Potsdam – Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. website. ...
by European Public Health Alliance | Mar 30, 2020 | News Release, Statements
Italiano Deutsch Français Polski 30 March 2020, Brussels – A comprehensive set of satellite images reveal how air pollution has fallen dramatically in cities across the world due to Covid-19 lockdown measures. But the “damage is already done” for patients,...
by European Public Health Alliance | Mar 16, 2020 | News Release, Statements
Conditions caused by dirty air likely to cut survival chances New maps show clean air returning to cities in lockdown 16 March 2020, Brussels – Those living in polluted cities are more at risk from Covid-19, the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA)...
by EPHA | Mar 5, 2020 | Statements
Air pollution is the number one environmental threat to health in the European region and globally, leading to 400,000 premature deaths and hundreds of billions of euros in health costs in the EU each year. There is a large body of evidence on how air pollution harms...
