Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/oIu612tz3DI   Asthma under active treatment may help recovery from CoVid19.  Case series from central China regions and New York City, two epicenters of the pandemic, raise questions about the CDC’s designation of asthma as a complicating factor for CoVid.   Asthma patients with CoVid have no higher hospitalization rates than than non-asthmatics.  In Wuhan, 5% of people have asthma but only 1% of those hospitalized with CoVid have it.  Ten percent of New Yorkers are asthmatics, but they are under-represented among those hospitalized with the virus.   Asthma or its treatment may be protective.  Asthmatics seem to less ACE2, the CoVid magnet, in their lungs.  The inhaled steroids they use may suppress the cytokine storm.   https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/86323 https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/asthma.html   #covid #coronavirus #asthma #steroids #ace2