New research finds a 40% drop in asthma attacks among Black and Hispanic Americans.
May 26, 2021
May 26, 2021
Around one in 13 Americans live with asthma that’s 25 million people in total. This chronic respiratory condition affects everyone from adults to young children, but it carries a deeply unequal burden: Black and Puerto Rican Americans are 1.5 and 2 times more likely (respectively) than white Americans to have asthma. Minority groups are also more susceptible to severe consequences from it, including emergency room visits, extended hospitalization, and death.
Asthma rates in the United States have been steadily increasing for years now… that is, until the COVID-19 pandemic hit in spring 2020. You might not associate the rise of COVID with a change in the prevalence of asthma (we wouldn’t have guessed this either), but new research is revealing a surprising correlation: An April 2021 study in the