COVID-19 Infection and Air Pollution Characteristics in USA

1. Background

Later in the year 2019 in the month of December, a pandemic called Corona virus immerged as a giant effecting hundreds of patients at a starch in Wuhan city of China. Some of the Chinese researchers named it as Wuhan corona virus or 2019 novel Corona virus. Later on ICTV- International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses named this virus as SARS-CoV-2 and added it to the category of diseases under the name COVID-19 (J Cui et al. 2019 and C.C Lai et al.,2020). The name of the virus “Corona” is derived from the projections similar to a crown on its outer layer. In human beings it starts with mild cough and cold to severe respiratory problems. Earlier, it was believed that only animals were subjected to corona virus which happened in Guangdong, China (Zhong N et al.2020) in the year 2002, causing severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). But later on it target to human population too. After a decade, in Middle Eastern countries a bacillus corona virus named as East respiratory syndrome Corona virus (MERS-CoV) threatens the lives worldwide (Zhong N et al.2020 and N Wang et al.2013) But, unfortunately in 2019 Corona virus was back again with more sophisticated symptoms having an epicenter from Wuhan, China. The government of China communicated WHO about outbreak of absurd cases of Pneumonia with severe respiratory conditions in December 2019. On March 11, 2020 World Health Organization (https://systems.jhu.edu/ Accessed on date: 30 May 2020). The communication of virus from one body to another occurs by coming into contact of infected person through coughing, sneezing and respiratory droplets.