Asthma and COVID-19: What do we know now.

Clin Med Insights Circ Respir Pulm Med

Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Published: October 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented challenges in symptomology identification, diagnosis, management and follow-up in common respiratory diseases, and in particular asthma. Research is rapidly ongoing to try and understand how the SARS-CoV-2 virus affects individuals with asthma, as well as, how underlying asthma affects Covid-19 risk, symptomology and prognosis. In light of this unique medical challenge, clinicians are faced with case-by-case based decisions to implement or continue current asthma therapy. This review will discuss the current literature regarding asthma and COVID-19 based on best available evidence at this time (See box 1).

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