Pablo Méndez-Lázaro (bottom) with his three brothers in 1990. “We believe that there could be an exacerbation of COVID-19 patients in the Caribbean during African dust events,” Méndez-Lázaro said. “We see this as a Rubik’s Cube. Each tiny, colored cube is a different part of the puzzle.” Méndez-Lázaro is working closely with the Puerto Rico Department of Health, the National Weather Service’s San Juan Office, as well as physicians and patients, to gather information on people who have contracted respiratory diseases after exposure to African dust. Now, Méndez-Lázaro’s team is examining if seasonal African dust, which travels to the Caribbean by riding air currents across the Atlantic Ocean, has significant impacts on health and mortality associated with the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Méndez-Lázaro and his team are working with epidemiologists, among many specialists, to better understand how African dust impacts public health. Pablo Méndez-Lázaro with his University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus graduate students in front of the National Weather Service-San Juan Office in 2019 for a training in hydro-climatology.
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