Study: Childhood asthma declines during COVID-19 pandemic

Apr 20, 2023
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Compared with three years prior to the pandemic, crude incident diagnosis rates of asthma decreased by 52% across the first four quarters of the U.S. pandemic.

https://respiratory-research.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12931-023-02377-7


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