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Asthma patients with confirmed COVID-19 were no more likely to require hospitalization or mechanical ventilation than patients without asthma, researchers found.
Moreover, the asthma patients were less likely to die from COVID, reported Lacey Robinson, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, at the virtual annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI).
In a matched cohort analysis, 21% of asthma patients with COVID-19 were hospitalized compared with 18% of patients without asthma, and their mortality rates were 1% and 3%, respectively.
The study is the latest to suggest that asthma patients as a group are at no greater risk from SARS-CoV-2 infection than the general population, and that they may even have extra protection against developing severe disease.