According to the American Lung Association’s latest report, over 14 million people of color live in counties with short-term and year-round high particle pollution and ozone pollution.
While children are forced to remain indoors, some researchers are growing concerned that pandemic’s longer-term effects on children’s health due to school closures might exacerbate the epidemic of childhood obesity.
A recent U.S. modeling study estimates that school closures might result in the absenteeism of 29% of U.S. healthcare workers as they might need to stay at home to take care of their young children. This might potentially lead to more deaths than they …