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How chemicals like PFAS can increase your risk of severe COVID-19

  • Written by Kathryn Crawford, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health, Middlebury
How chemicals like PFAS can increase your risk of severe COVID-19The same chronic illnesses associated with exposure to endocrine-disrupting compounds also increase risk of developing severe COVID-19.Engin Akyurt and Kai Dahms/Unsplash

Nearly a year before the novel coronavirus emerged, Dr. Leonardo Trasande published “Sicker, Fatter, Poorer,” a book about connections between environmental pollutants...

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