Long-term exposure to fine particulate matter and hospitalization in COVID-19 patients.

"Disclosures The authors have no disclosure related to the submitted manuscript. AM takes full responsibility for the integrity of the dataset and the analysis results. The SAS codes and datasets without patients’ identifiable information will be made available for the sole purpose of reproducing the findings upon reasonable request. Declaration of competing interest The authors have no conflict of interest."

"Funding Contributions of Angelico Mendy, Changchun Xie, and Susan Pinney were partly funded by grant P30 ES006096 from the U.S. National Institute of Health. Cecily Fassler’s contribution was funded by grant T32ES010957 from the US National Institute of Health. Senu Apewokin’s contribution was partly funded by K08CA237735 from the US National Institute of Health. Tesfaye B. Mersha’s contribution was partly supported by the National Institutes of Health, grant R01HL132344. The COVID-19 data collection was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institute of Health, grant 5UL1TR001425-03."