Reader's response on "What we do and don’t know about the links between air pollution and coronavirus" (Final)
In the article "What we do and don’t know about the links between air pollution and coronavirus" written by Alistair Lewis, he stated on his view of how air pollution is link with coronavirus. Air pollution has increased the rate of "strokes, heart disease, respiratory illness and more" which has led to high mortality rate. Therefore, it is clear that air pollution and coronavirus are interlink. However, there are other factors as well contributing to corona virus. In highly developed places such as New York City and London where it has high influx of people due to its "extensive global travel connections", it increases the chances of "person-to-person contagion rates”. In urban areas, people also tend to take mass transport system. This means that higher chances of infectious rate. While I agree that air pollution plays a part in affecting coronavirus, Lewis did not clearly mention on the other contributing factors. One of the factors which Lewis h...