Asthma may not boost odds of severe Covid-19

At the beginning of the pandemic, it was thought that people with asthma had a higher risk of severe outcomes

"A lot of people with asthma think they have a predisposition to severe Covid, and they worry a lot about going out. They should take precautions like using their masks, but they may not need to worry so much," said study author Dr Fernando Holguin. He's director of the Asthma Clinical and Research Program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, in Aurora.

In the new study, the researchers reviewed 15 studies on Covid-19 infections to see how many people hospitalised had asthma. They also looked at more than 400 patients treated for Covid-19 at the University of Colorado Hospital, to see whether the rates of ventilator use were different in people with asthma.

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