Environmental factors influencing COVID-19 incidence and severity

AK Weaver, JR Head, CF Gould… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Emerging evidence supports a link between environmental factors—including air pollution
and chemical exposures, climate, and the built environment—and severe acute respiratory …

Can the coronavirus disease be transmitted from food? A review of evidence, risks, policies and knowledge gaps

J Han, X Zhang, S He, P Jia - Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has brought speculations on possible
transmission routes of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) …

[PDF][PDF] Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: implications for infection prevention precautions: scientific brief, 09 July 2020

(‎ 2020 World Health Organization - 2020 - apps.who.int
This document is an update to the scientific brief published on 29 March 2020 entitled
“Modes of transmission of virus causing COVID-19: implications for infection prevention and …

Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in water and wastewater

A Bivins, J Greaves, R Fischer, KC Yinda… - … & Technology Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA is frequently detected
in the feces of infected individuals. While infectious SARS-CoV-2 has not previously been …

The role of seasonality in the spread of COVID-19 pandemic

X Liu, J Huang, C Li, Y Zhao, D Wang, Z Huang… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
It has been reported that the transmission of COVID-19 can be influenced by the variation of
environmental factors due to the seasonal cycle. However, its underlying mechanism in the …

Mechanistic theory predicts the effects of temperature and humidity on inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 and other enveloped viruses

DH Morris, KC Yinda, A Gamble, FW Rossine, Q Huang… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Ambient temperature and humidity strongly affect inactivation rates of enveloped viruses, but
a mechanistic, quantitative theory of these effects has been elusive. We measure the stability …

Rapid inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 with deep-UV LED irradiation

H Inagaki, A Saito, H Sugiyama… - Emerging Microbes & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The spread of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections worldwide has raised
concerns about the prevention and control of SARS-CoV-2. Devices that rapidly inactivate …

Fluid dynamics of respiratory infectious diseases

L Bourouiba - Annual review of biomedical engineering, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The host-to-host transmission of respiratory infectious diseases is fundamentally enabled by
the interaction of pathogens with a variety of fluids (gas or liquid) that shape pathogen …

[HTML][HTML] Role of meteorological factors in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States

Y Ma, S Pei, J Shaman, R Dubrow, K Chen - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Improved understanding of the effects of meteorological conditions on the transmission of
SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent for COVID-19 disease, is needed. Here, we estimate the …

Breathing, speaking, coughing or sneezing: What drives transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2?

V Stadnytskyi, P Anfinrud, A Bax - Journal of Internal Medicine, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The SARS‐CoV‐2 virus is highly contagious, as demonstrated by numerous well‐
documented superspreading events. The infection commonly starts in the upper respiratory …