GH020
The influence of environmental/climatic, social, economic, and policy factors on the incidence, propagation, and impact of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19.
Session ID#: 158967
Session Description:
SARS-CoV2/COVID-19 propagated rapidly from local to global scales with a multi-trillion-dollar impact and over 504M cases and 6.2M deaths (April 2022). Since winter 2019, the pandemic has prevailed over more than two annual seasonal cycles of both hemispheres. Key questions remain regarding environmental determinants and co-factors associated with virus infectiousness, transmission rates, and disease severity. Infection, hospitalization, and mortality rates appear to vary substantially between countries, geopolitical, and environmental domains. Robust vaccination efforts, albeit with globally varying intensity, have modulated the spread and impact of COVID-19 though variants have caused resurgent cycles. This session invites papers using environmental observations (RS/in-situ/modeled) to distinguish between environmental factors associated (or not) with SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 and concurrent forcings due to policies, social practices, demographics, and economic activities. The session also considers overlapping issues of environmental and climate justice. The session encourages applications with local to global diagnostics and risk warning systems that focus on pandemic preparedness as well as presentations of tools to support easily accessible, locally relevant, enhanced monitoring and prediction products (e.g., laptop, tablet, smartphone applications).
Index Terms:
0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
0240 Public health [GEOHEALTH]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1952 Modeling [INFORMATICS]
Primary Convener: Sushel Unninayar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, KBR/MSU, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners: Benjamin F Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, Helena Chapman, NASA Headquarters, Applied Sciences Program, Washington, DC, United States and Jared Keith Entin, NASA HQ - SMD, Washington, DC, United States
Thinking Beyond COVID-19: The Geo-Environmental-Sociological-Epidemiological (GESE) Framework for prediction of respiratory infections. (Invited) (1042969)
Moiz Usmani1, Kyle Brumfield2, Bailey Magers3, Chang-Yu Wu3, Thanh H Nguyen4, Rita R Colwell5 and Antarpreet Singh Jutla3, (1)University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (2)University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (3)University of Florida, Gainesville, United States, (4)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, Centre for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, College Park, MD, United States
Emissions of Ammonia Declined during the first COVID-19 lockdowns over Europe (1064366)
Nikolaos Evangeliou, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Atmospheric and Climate Research, Kjeller, Norway, Ondřej Tichý, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Information Theory and Automation Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, Sabine Eckhardt, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway, Yves Balkanski, LSCE, CEA CNRS UVSQ, 91191, Gif sur Yvette, France, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France and Didier Hauglustaine, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, UMR8212, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
Transportation, urban environments and economic relationships in São Paulo, Brazil. (1066727)
Pedro Jose Jose Perez-Martinez, UNICAMP State University of Campinas, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Campinas, Brazil and Regina Maura Miranda, University Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Effects of climatic, social and policy factors on SARS-CoV-2 reproduction number in three contiguous countries of Tropical Andean South America: a spatiotemporally disaggregated time series analysis. (1093450)
Josh Michael Colston, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States, Hamada S Badr, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, Margaret N Kosek, University of Virginia, Medicine, Charlottesville, United States, Benjamin F Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, United States and Lauren Gardner, Johns Hopkins University, Balitmore, United States
Searching for the COVID-19 Lockdowns’ Imprint in the Air (1116272)
Claire Yu1, Huisheng Bian2, Mian Chin3, Qian Tan4, Peter Richard Colarco5 and Hongbin Yu3, (1)NASA GSFC and Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville, United States, (2)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, San Jose, CA, United States, (5)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
The Role of Geographical Spreaders in Infectious Pattern Formation and Front Propagation Speeds: A case study with epidemiological parameters derived for COVID-19 (1148475)
Shuolin Li, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, Craig Henriquez, Duke University, Durham, United States and Gabriel George Katul, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
Relating SARS-CoV-2 RNA Measured in Chicago-area Wastewater Treatment Plants and Cook County COVID-19 Public Health Data (1183013)
Katelyn Leisman1, Maria Warns1, Anuj Tiwari2, Christopher Owen2, Charlie Catlett3, Rachel Poretsky2, Abhilasha Shrestha2, Aaron Ian Packman4 and Niall Mangan1, (1)Northwestern University, Evanston, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States, (3)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (4)Northwestern Univeristy, Evanston, United States
USGS-CDC Partnership for Multi-State Rapid Deployment Wastewater Monitoring of SARS-COV-2 Pandemic (1183017)
Matthew Connor Morriss1, Stephanie Gordon2, Rachel Atkins1, Jonathan Cohl3, Julie E Dietze4, Deborah D Iwanowicz5 and Daniel K Jones6, (1)USGS Utah Water Science Center, West Valley City, United States, (2)USGS Leetown Science Center, Kearneysville, WV, United States, (3)USGS New Jersey Water Science Center, West Trenton, United States, (4)USGS Kansas Water Science Center, Lawrence, United States, (5)USGS Leetown Science Center, Kearneysville, United States, (6)US Geological Survey, West Valley City, United States
The Covid-19 Seattle Street View Campaign (1193422)
Joseph Wartman1, Nicole Errett2, Scott Miles3, Youngjun Choe2, Nick Terry2, Matt Martella2, Chris Salazar2 and Ciara Gormley2, (1)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, United States, (3)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Human Centered Design and Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States
