The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Environment in the Asia Pacific

Hao-Jie Huang
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the consequences of political and ecological choices that have been made and continue to be made in the Asia Pacific. Over recent decades, the region’s rapid urbanization and industrialization have played a significant role in dynamic national economic development,  a rapid rise in per capita income and the establishment of some of the world’s fastest-growing cities. Development has, however, come at a heavy price: planetary-health experts believe that a byproduct of human intrusion into remote wilderness areas has been a sharp uptick in environmental degradation and zoonotic diseases such COVID-19. Moreover, people living with poor air quality are more susceptible to this virus, and airborne particulate matter may even help to spread the virus.  A study conducted by the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health has confirmed  that there is a statistical correlation between high levels of air pollution and increased Covid-19 mortality rates. 
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2019冠状病毒病大流行与亚太地区环境
2019冠状病毒病大流行暴露了亚太地区已经做出并将继续做出的政治和生态选择的后果。近几十年来,亚太地区快速的城市化和工业化进程对国家经济的蓬勃发展、人均收入的快速增长和一些世界上发展最快的城市的建立发挥了重要作用。然而,发展也付出了沉重的代价:地球卫生专家认为,人类入侵偏远荒野地区的一个副产品是环境退化和COVID-19等人畜共患疾病急剧加剧。此外,生活在空气质量差的地方的人更容易感染这种病毒,空气中的颗粒物甚至可能有助于病毒的传播。哈佛大学陈曾熙公共卫生学院进行的一项研究证实,高水平的空气污染与Covid-19死亡率上升之间存在统计学相关性。
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