Covid‐19 pandemic and asthma: What did we learn?
Chloë I. Bloom
Abstract
This review addresses some of the major lessons we have learnt regarding asthma and the covid-19 pandemic, including susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe covid-19, potentially protective factors, comparison to other respiratory infections, changes in healthcare behaviour from the perspective of patients and clinicians, medications to treat or prevent covid-19, and post-covid syndrome.
Topics & Concepts
MedicinePandemicCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakAsthmaSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)VirologyBetacoronavirusImmunologyInfectious disease (medical specialty)OutbreakPathologyDiseaseCOVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesLong-Term Effects of COVID-19COVID-19 and healthcare impacts