@article{36c4c86ceb6a488c8f42fd564dd2270a,
title = "The impact of the first COVID-19 surge on Severe Asthma Patients in the UK. Which is worse: The virus or the lockdown?",
abstract = "Respiratory viral infections are a significant cause of morbidity in asthma [1]. Patients with severe asthma were assumed to be at greater risk from novel coronavirus-2 (COVID-19) infection. In the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple countries enacted social containment policies. In the UK a countrywide lockdown occurred in March 2020, with stringent self-isolation (“shielding”) advice for high-risk patients, including people with severe asthma.",
author = "Smith, {Steven J} and John Busby and Heaney, {Liam G} and Pfeffer, {Paul E} and Jackson, {David J} and Freda Yang and Fowler, {Stephen J} and Andrew Menzies-Gow and Elfatih Idris and Thomas Brown and Robin Gore and Shoaib Faruqi and Paddy Dennison and Dodd, {James W} and Simon Doe and Mansur, {Adel H} and Radhika Priyadarshi and Joshua Holmes and Andrew Hearn and Hamsa Al-Aqqad and Lola Loewenthal and Angela Cooper and Lauren Fox and Mayurun Selvan and Crooks, {Michael G} and Alison Thompson and Daniel Higbee and Michelle Fawdon and Vishal Nathwani and LeanneJo Holmes and Rekha Chaudhuri",
year = "2020",
month = nov,
day = "19",
doi = "10.1183/23120541.00768-2020",
language = "English",
journal = "ERJ Open Research",
issn = "2312-0541",
publisher = "European Respiratory Society",
}