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cord-313659-jutdl9qu	Mahdavinia, Mahboobeh	Reply to Does asthma affect outcomes of patients with COVID-19 infections?	2020-09-28		.txt	text/plain	773	57	59	Our results are in agreement with other papers that were published in the 28 following month showing that asthma does not decrease or increase hospitalization rate and length for 29 Additional studies showed that atopy might play an important role in the response to 30 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). However, as a chronic lung disease prone to viral-induced exacerbation, this might place those 42 with severe COVID-19 at risk for a longer duration of pulmonary inflammation.(2, 5) Furthermore, an 43 allergic background and differential expression of ACE2 and TMPRSS2 may dampen the strong 44 inflammatory response to SARS-CoV-2 in patients with allergic asthma patients, leading to the lack of 45 increased severity reported in patients with non-allergic asthma. Another important factor that needs to be considered and further investigated is the impact of racial differences on COVID-19 outcome in asthma patients. The studies that did not find any difference in 48 terms of COVID-19 severity or intubation time in asthma patients were done in predominantly non-49	./cache/cord-313659-jutdl9qu.txt	./txt/cord-313659-jutdl9qu.txt