Go slow to go fast: a plea for sustained scientific rigour in air pollution research during the COVID-19 pandemic

Dick J J Heederik; Lidwien A M Smit; Roel C H Vermeulen

doi:10.1183/13993003.01361-2020

Go slow to go fast: a plea for sustained scientific rigour in air pollution research during the COVID-19 pandemic

Eur Respir J. 2020 Jul 30;56(1):2001361. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01361-2020. Print 2020 Jul.

Authors

Dick J J Heederik¹, Lidwien A M Smit², Roel C H Vermeulen²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands d.heederik@uu.nl.
² Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Abstract

Present studies on the role of air pollution and COVID-19 spread, and the prognosis in patients, do not fulfil quality criteria and are not sufficiently informative https://bit.ly/3hGjd73

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Air Pollutants*
Air Pollution*
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Conservation of Natural Resources*
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Coronavirus Infections / transmission*
Environmental Monitoring
Geography
Global Health
Humans
Pandemics
Patient Isolation
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Pneumonia, Viral / transmission*
Prognosis
Quarantine
Reproducibility of Results
Research / trends
Research Design
SARS-CoV-2

Substances

Air Pollutants