Household pollution and COVID-19: Irrelevant association?

Marilyn Urrutia-Pereira ^[1] ; Carlos Augusto Mello-da-Silva ^[3] ; Dirceu Solé ^[2]
1. [1] Universidade Federal do Pampa
  
  Universidade Federal do Pampa
  
  Brasil
2. [2] Universidade Federal de São Paulo
  
  Universidade Federal de São Paulo
  
  Brasil
3. [3] Scientific Department on Toxicology and Environmental Health, Brazilian Society of Pediatrics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Poison Information Center (CIT), State Health Department, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
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Localización: Allergologia et immunopathologia: International journal for clinical and investigate allergology and clinical immunology, ISSN-e 1578-1267, ISSN 0301-0546, Vol. 49, Nº. 1, 2021, págs. 146-149
Idioma: inglés
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- Evidence supports the link between air pollution and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Therefore, exposure to indoor pollution (IDP) is likely to be associated with the disease. The poor, refugees, and migrant workers who live in feeble conditions are the most vulnerable. The pandemic has caused many people to remain indoors, especially at-risk individuals (e.g., the elderly, diabetics, obese, cardiac, and chronic lung disease patients). Home isolation may be an underlying factor to other health problems among these populations if the place where they are socially isolating is not adequately ventilated. Therefore, understanding the consequences of the relationship between IDP and the COVID-19 pandemic is essential.