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Incidence and Case-Fatality Ratio of COVID-19 infection in relation to Tobacco Smoking, Population Density and Age Demographics in the USA: could Particulate Matter derived from Tobacco Smoking act as a Vector for COVID-19 transmission?

2020-10-06

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>BACKGROUND</h4> Tobacco smoking is known to increase the risk for bacterial and viral respiratory infections and this also applies to second-hand smoking. Smoking has been shown to increase the severity of COVID-19 infection and the consequent risk for intra-tracheal ventilation in smokers. Tobacco smoking exposes the user and nearby individuals to very high concentrations of particulate matt...

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Literature Corpus work: 40147b86-ab1e-59af-912a-5fab73741125
DOI: 10.1101/2020.10.04.20206383

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