The Fallout of Catastrophic Technogenic Emissions of Toxic Gases Can Negatively Affect Covid-19 Clinical Course

Acta Naturae

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Giancarlo Succi¹  Witold Pedrycz²  Anna P. Bogachuk³  Alexander G. Tormasov¹  Alexey A. Belogurov⁴  Aldo Spallone⁵ 

[1]Innopolis University

[2]University of Alberta

[3]Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry RAS

[4]Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry RAS, Evdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry

[5]Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry RAS, Neurological Centre of Latium, Institute of Neurological Sciences

关键词: SARS-CoV-2;    COVID-19;    Italy;    Seveso;    dioxin;   

DOI  :  10.32607/actanaturae.11754

学科分类：生物技术

来源: Moskovskii Gosudarstvennyi Universitet im.M.V.Lomonosova/M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University

【 摘 要 】

The coronavirus D-19 (Covid-19) pandemic has shaken almost every country in the world: as we stand, 6,3 million deaths from the infection have already been recorded, 167,000 and 380,000 of which are in Italy and the Russian Federation, respectively. In the first wave of the pandemic, Italy suffered an abnormally high death toll. A detailed analysis of available epidemiological data suggests that that rate was shockingly high in the Northern regions and in Lombardy, in particular, whilst in the southern region the situation was less dire. This inexplicably high mortality rate in conditions of a very well-developed health care system such as the one in Lombardy – recognized as one of the best in Italy – certainly cries for a convincing explanation. In 1976, the small city of Seveso, Lombardy, experienced a release of dioxin into the atmosphere after a massive technogenic accident. The immediate effects of the industrial disaster did not become apparent until a surge in the number of tumors in the affected population in the subsequent years. In this paper, we endeavor to prove our hypothesis that the release of dioxin was a negative cofactor that contributed to a worsening of the clinical course of COVID-19 in Lombardy.

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