Abstract

Air pollution health disparities can be reduced. The ‘triple jeopardy’ of air pollution exposures, health disparities and the COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique situation from which lessons we can learn. During the surge of the pandemic, there was evidence of reductions in ambient air pollutant concentrations during forced lockdowns, reductions in asthma hospitalizations and medication prescriptions, as well as expansion of telemedicine. It is time to use the accumulated knowledge to prepare for imminent COVID variants and future pandemics and implement informed changes to reduce air pollution health disparities. The lessons we have learned, when revisited and implemented, can be beneficial to all, particularly the most vulnerable among us. Such lessons are important starting points that can inform sustainable intervention strategies to reduce current air pollution and health disparities.

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