(04-01-2020, 11:05 PM)BostonCard Wrote: Another positive health effect of SiP is the improvement in air quality.China has a large pollution problem and a large population. The benefits there are probably the most dramatic.
Wish I still had the link, but at one point more lives were saved due to improved air quality than had been lost due to coronavirus, though I suspect that with the deaths increasing exponentially, that is no longer the case.
Air Pollution Reduction and Mortality Benefit during the COVID-19 Outbreak in China
Quote:Our findings show that interventions to contain the COVID-19 outbreak led to air quality improvements that brought health benefits which outnumbered the confirmed deaths due to COVID-19 in China
COVID-19, City Lockdown, and Air Pollution: Evidence from China
Quote:we show that these counter-COVID-19 measures led to remarkable improvement in air quality. . . . We estimate that such improvement would avert 24,000 to 36,000 premature deaths from air pollution on a monthly basis.
I am looking forward to seeing some estimate of the impact of COVID-19 on global warming.