A Surprise Surge in Air Pollution May Be Causing More Coronavirus Complications

Lax federal enforcement of air quality standards linked to poorer health across America

Robert Roy Britt
Elemental
Published in
10 min readJul 20, 2020

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Spikes in pollution caused by a federal relaxation of air quality standards in March led to increases in Covid-19 deaths in the most industrialized areas of the United States, new

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Robert Roy Britt
Elemental

Editor of Aha! and Wise & Well on Medium + the Writer's Guide at writersguide.substack.com. Author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: amazon.com/dp/B0BJBYFQCB