SAN FRANCISCO — In urban minority children with a high asthma burden, improvement in healthcare utilization rates was tied with better asthma control, according to research presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.
“In urban minority children with high asthma disease burden, rates of health care utilization, including hospitalizations, emergency department visits, urgent care visits and sick office visits, decreased significantly as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. During this time, despite improvements in asthma control symptoms, there was no change in