Children with asthma had worse outcomes in the 6 months following SARS-CoV-2 infection confirmed by a polymerase chain reaction test, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.
Christine C. Chou, MD, pediatrician at Children’s Hospital of Orange County Breathmobile asthma clinic, and colleagues called their study the first large-scale nationwide research demonstrating these effects.
Previously, the researchers reported a dramatic reduction in asthma morbidity after the middle of March 2020 when compared with earlier years, with multiple