A considerable proportion of premature deaths in European cities could be avoided
annually by lowering air pollution concentrations, particularly below WHO guidelines. The mortality burden varied considerably between European cities, indicating where policy actions are more urgently needed to reduce air pollution and achieve sustainable, liveable, and healthy communities. Current guidelines should be revised and air pollution concentrations should be reduced further to achieve greater protection of health in cities.
Jean-Baptiste Renard, Jeremy Surcin, Isabella Annesi-Maesano, Gilles Delaunay, Eric Poincelet, Gilles Dixsaut, Relation between PM2.5 pollution and Covid-19 mortality in Western Europe for the 2020–2022 period, Science of The Total Environment Vol 848,2022,157579, https://doi.org/10.101/j.scitotenv.2022.157579
Abstract: We present here an analysis of such correlation for 32 locations in 6 countries of the Western Europe (France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom), for the 2020–2022 period. The data are weekly averaged, and the mortality values were normalized considering the population of the locations.