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Asthma and COVID-19

Elissa M. Abrams, Geert W. ‘t Jong, Connie Yang

2020Canadian Medical Association Journal68 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

There is some evidence to date that those with asthma are overrepresented among the adult patients who have been admitted to hospital with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).[1][1],[2][2] This overrepresentation may occur because severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) triggers

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