Authors
Peter D Sly, Brittany A Trottier, Catherine M Bulka, Stephania A Cormier, Julius Fobil, Rebecca C Fry, Kyoung-Woong Kim, Steven Kleeberger, Pushpam Kumar, Philip J Landrigan, Karin C Lodrop Carlsen, Antonio Pascale, Fernando Polack, Mathuros Ruchirawat, Heather J Zar, William A Suk
Publication date
2021/12
Journal
Environmental Health
Volume
20
Pages
1-10
Publisher
BioMed Central
Description
Background
An unusual feature of SARS-Cov-2 infection and the COVID-19 pandemic is that children are less severely affected than adults. This is especially paradoxical given the epidemiological links between poor air quality and increased COVID-19 severity in adults and that children are generally more vulnerable than adults to the adverse consequences of air pollution.
Objectives
To identify gaps in knowledge about the factors that protect children from severe SARS-Cov-2 infection even in the face of air pollution, and to develop a transdisciplinary research strategy to address these gaps.
Methods
An international group of researchers interested in children’s environmental health was invited to identify knowledge gaps and to develop research questions to close these gaps.
Discussion …
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