Fewer children with asthma were hospitalized for exacerbations during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with the previous year, although they presented with more severe symptoms, according to a recent study.
Nada Alabdulkarim, MBBS, a pediatric resident at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., and colleagues examined 50 cases between April 1 and Sept. 30, 2020, as well as 243 controls from the same period in 2019, in the study published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.
The children in the pandemic cases were significantly older compared with
Fewer children hospitalized with asthma exacerbations during early days of COVID-19
Fewer children with asthma were hospitalized for exacerbations during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with the previous year, although they presented with more severe symptoms, according to a recent study.
Nada Alabdulkarim, MBBS, a pediatric resident at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., and colleagues examined 50 cases between April 1 and Sept. 30, 2020, as well as 243 controls from the same period in 2019, in the study published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.
The children in the pandemic cases were significantly older compared with