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2020-09-25

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Rosas Arango, S. M. ., Del Ángel-Caraza, J. ., & Soriano-Vargas, E. . (2020). COVID-19 infection, a look at environmental factors related to the pandemic. NOVA Biomedical Sciences Journal, 18(35), 101-105. https://doi.org/10.22490/24629448.4193
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COVID-19 infection, a look at environmental factors related to the pandemic

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22490/24629448.4193
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Sonia Marcela Rosas Arango Universidad Santo Tomás
Javier Del Ángel-Caraza Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
Edgardo Soriano-Vargas Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México

The global pandemic due to COVID-19 has generated countless alerts and changes in the ways of living and consuming, the environment, health and individual triad is once again the protagonist in this scenario where serious fractures in the public health systems, habitat and food security are seen. As a transverse factor to these elements, environmental contamination became a facilitating effect of the pandemic and transmission by contact between humans through aerosols represents the route of contagion, this situation forced the distancing and preventive confinement, this measure to makes evident the poverty, inequality and inequity that is experienced globally, on the other hand the changes in mobility and the frequency of production in manufacturing industries brought a reduction in greenhouse gases.