{"id":1331,"date":"2020-09-13T04:25:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T09:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2020-09-13T04:25:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T09:25:39","slug":"new-research-shows-disproportionate-rate-of-coronavirus-deaths-in-polluted-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/09\/13\/new-research-shows-disproportionate-rate-of-coronavirus-deaths-in-polluted-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"New Research Shows Disproportionate Rate of Coronavirus Deaths in Polluted Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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COVID-19 can be made more serious \u2014 and, in some cases, more deadly \u2014 by a specific type of industrial emission called hazardous air pollutants, or HAPs, according to new peer-reviewed research by ProPublica and researchers at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. The study, published Friday in the journal Environmental Research Letters<\/a>, found this association in both rural counties in Louisiana and highly populated communities in New York.<\/p>\n

The analysis examined air pollution and coronavirus deaths in the roughly 3,100 U.S. counties and found a close correlation between levels of hazardous pollutants and the per-capita death rate from COVID-19.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency defines HAPs<\/a> as chemicals known or suspected to cause cancer and other serious health problems. Under the Clean Air Act, industrial facilities emitting these pollutants are subject to regulations.<\/p>\n

Hazardous air pollution may help explain the disproportionate number of COVID-19 deaths in communities like West Baton Rouge Parish, home to Port Allen. With 39 deaths as of Sept. 7, the parish\u2019s per-capita death rate from COVID-19 ranked it among the top 3% of all U.S. counties with at least 30 deaths. Several of its neighbors in Louisiana\u2019s industrial corridor also rank near the top of the list.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: ProPublica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COVID-19 can be made more serious \u2014 and, in some cases, more deadly \u2014 by a specific type of industrial emission called hazardous air pollutants, or HAPs, according to new peer-reviewed research by ProPublica and researchers at the State University Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}