ONS: Air pollution and COVID-19 mortality rates in England, 6 August 2020
Paper by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) examining the potential relationship between long term air pollution exposure and COVID-19 mortality rates.
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Paper by ONS for initial review by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE). It was considered at SAGE 50 on 6 August 2020.
The report was released by ONS on 13 August 2020.
It should be viewed in context: the paper was the best assessment of the evidence at the time of writing. The picture is developing rapidly and, as new evidence or data emerges, SAGE updates its advice accordingly.
Therefore, some of the information in this paper may have been superseded and the author’s opinion or conclusion may since have developed.
These documents are released as pre-print publications that have provided the government with rapid evidence during an emergency. These documents have not been peer-reviewed and there is no restriction on authors submitting and publishing this evidence in peer-reviewed journals.