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. 2022 Jan 14;272:118944. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2022.118944

Table 3.

Percentage changes in human mobility to various types of places, including grocery-pharmacy, workplaces, transit stations, and parks in the eleven study regions between March–May of 2020 and the baseline (median value from the five-week period ranging from January 3 to February 6, 2020). The column “Residential” refers to percentage changes in the amount of time people stayed in their residential areas compared to the baseline. The column “PM2.5 Change” also shows the percentage changes in the mean PM2.5 levels between March–May of 2020 and 2019. All numbers represent percentages.

Region PM2.5 Change Grocery-Pharmacy Workplace Residential Transit Stations Parks
Washington DC −21.1 −14.40 −43.69 18.44 −47.28 16.53
New York −20.7 −14.57 −47.19 20.34 −53.35 −3.64
Boston −18.5 −16.25 −47.63 20.43 −57.38 13.14
Detroit −13.53 −11.35 −44.72 17.26 −32.22 63.68
Chicago −8.05 −3.51 −37.21 15.09 −31.79 19.32
Seattle −7.73 −11.33 −45.46 17.86 −44.98 26.78
Dallas −6.71 −4.36 −36.48 14.64 −24.67 14
Philadelphia −4.82 −11.09 −39.75 15.76 −44.45 11.94
Houston −3.63 −1.49 −34.37 14.26 −13.09 9.17
Los Angeles −3.29 −10.39 −37.33 17.14 −41.66 −23.56
Phoenix 5.5 −7.00 −34.13 12.32 −31.16 −11.15