Are allergic rhinitis patients at higher risk of severe
COVID-19?
Although limited, the available evidence suggests that, compared to
non-allergic individuals, allergic rhinitis patients are not at higher
risk of developing severe COVID-19. In a Chinese cohort of 140
hospitalized COVID‐19 adult patients, allergic rhinitis and asthma were
not risk factors for SARS‐CoV‐2 infection.22 A
similar finding was also reported in children. In a recent study
addressing the clinical characteristics of 182 children with COVID‐19,
43 of them had an allergic condition, which was mainly allergic rhinitis
(83.7%). In this study, allergic children exhibited a disease
progression comparable to that of non-allergic
children.114 Prospective trials are urgently needed.