The vast majority of people infected with the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 experience mild cold-like symptoms, moderate flu-like symptoms, or no symptoms at all, but the virus is so transmissible that it still spread deep into lung tissue to cause severe disease and death in thousands of people in the United States in 2022 alone.
While it has been worrying for most immunocompromised people to get infected with COVID-19 disease, so are those who suffer from chronic lung conditions such as asthma. Known to be a very complex illness with mild to life threatening symptoms, studies show that lungs are the organs most affected by the coronavirus.
When the COVID-19 pandemic first began, those with chronic lung conditions like asthma were anxious about the disease being particularly severe for them. However, it appears that people with some types of asthma are faring better than expected –