In the June 2020 NIH Global Environmental Health Newsletter, several important global environmental health issues are discussed.
The spread of Covid-19 may be associated with temperature and humidity, seasonality, and ultraviolet light. Moreover, poor air quality appears to be associate with more sever health consequences. This has serious implications for India and other highly polluted areas. Moreover, this has significant implications for more polluted areas in our own country. Typically, lower income and minority neighborhoods are more impacted by toxins than other communities. That said, systemic racism may have an affect not widely considered, that is, making African Americans more susceptible to Covid-19. As such, governments should proactively address such inequalities.
Environmental Science and Its Application to Health 