We expected people with asthma to fare worse during COVID. Turns out they've had a break
- Written by Bruce Thompson, Professor and Dean of the School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology
ShutterstockThere were fears at the beginning of the COVID pandemic that people with asthma would fare much worse than those without it. Intuitively, a disease that attacks the lungs should put asthma sufferers at much greater risk.
But this hasn’t been borne out.
Firstly, it’s turned out people with asthma are at slightly lowerrisk of...
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