During COVID-19 pandemic people focused on the pandemic from all the directions (the home quarantine, the death rate, the developing in the researches about the disease and how to treat it). But they simply did not be attention in the positive effect of COVID-19 pandemic. The latest data from NASA agency and other organizations shows that the emissions that pollute the air like the green house gases have decreased after the home quarantine and the lock-downs for many factories and the surface transport. This decreasing of the emissions can save the life of millions in the next years as there is about 8 million deaths because of diseases caused by air pollution like TB and diabetes.
We would collect data about both COVID -19 and air pollution to achieve our goal which is determining the effects of COVID-19 on the air pollution and the deaths from diseases caused by it in the next years.
We hope to simulate more relationships in graphs and equations to make the variables more connected. We hope to make an application to collect data about both COVID-19 and air pollution to make our solution more applied on the reality.
We found that Air pollution is a problem which has very negative effects on nature and on human health represented in: 1-Global Warming which is direct consequence of the greenhouse effect, produced by the high emission of CO2 and methane into the atmosphere. Most of these emissions are produced by the industry
2-Climate Change: Which is another consequence of global warming. When the temperature of the planet increases, there is a disturbance in the usual climatic cycles, accelerating the changes of these cycles in an evident way. Due to climate change, the mass of the poles is melting, and this is leading to flooding and the rising of sea levels.
3-Acid Rain 4-Smog effect
5-Deterioration of fields
6-Respiratory health problems
7-Deterioration in building materials
8-Chemical Sensitivity
9-Skin Damage: Many of the chemical intolerance directly affect people’s skin. However, one of the worst damages is skin cancer. That disease in many cases develops from the direct incidence of ultraviolet light rays on the skin.
The ozone layer acts as a filter for those rays. If the ozone layer is thinner, the effectiveness of the filter decreases, letting rays pass, which are very harmful to humans.
So, we were looking for relating air pollution to the presence of COVID-19 and the shrinkage of the ozone hole layer in datasets and show how those problems of the air pollution are affected.
First, we have defined the environmental problems of air pollution, its effect on humans and its classification. Then, compared between the death rates due to air pollution before and after COVID-19.
Secondly, we discuss the epicenter of outbreak countries of COVID-19 and the procedures that those countries
Implemented including home quarantine, building new hospitals, testing new vaccines and the closure of
Governmental institutions, in addition to showing a graphs of the daily confirmed COVID-19 cases in each of those countries.
Thirdly, we put focus on the improvement of the air quality and the ozone hole layer during the lock-downs, the drop of CO2 emissions statistically, the relation between the concentration of NO2 in the atmosphere and the death rates from COVID-19,
and then represent graphs of the death numbers resulted from air pollution and from the COVID-19. Finally, we use the statistical methods to relate the air pollution and its effect on the nature ,especially "the ozone hole layer" to the annual deaths of humans.
Our data is based on many reliable imported graphs, statistical equations that describe the numerical data we used, interactive pictures and ordered tables. Other graphs and tables we have created using "Excel worksheet" and "GeoGebra" programs from the collected numerical data and the the statistical calculations we made were based on the functions we used in these
Programs, in addition to supporting our data by the links of sources we used. All the data are presented in the PowerPoint.
We faced some problems during research, for example:
1.the connection between COVID-19 data and the air pollution data to make the relationship in equations and graphs.
2.comparing the number of deaths between COVID-19 and air pollution.
3.the accuracy of the number of diseases of both COVID-19 and air pollution.
The achievements we did:
1.We achieved our goal and found a strong relationship between the home quarantine and the air pollution decreasing.
2.We found two equation to apply our work in the reality with real variables and numbers.
One of the most important foundations of scientific research is the source of information because if the source is weak then your information will be not accurate and rejected. In our research, we depended on 2 types of sources.
First, the sites that end with (.gov), (.edu) and (.org) such as who site. We collected a lot of information from these sites for example we got the statistics of total death, recovery and cases that infected with COVID-19 in china, Italy, Egypt and USA and steps of home quarantine done by these countries from who site
Second, we depended on NASA space agency as NASA and ESA sites. As these sites are high certified, most of our information from them such as we used data and images to form correlation and compare the ratio of air pollution before and after COVID-19 to achieve our goal and knew the effect of home quarantine and COVID- 19 on air pollution. Also, we got the daily global consume emissions decreased by -17% from April 2020 to the mean 2019 levels.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0797-x#:~:text=Daily%20global%20CO2%20emissions%20decreased%20by%20%E2%80%9317%25%20(%E2%80%93,by%20%E2%80%9326%25%20on%20average
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https://ourworldindata.org/ozone-layer
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0797-x
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