Flu and colds are back with a vengeance

Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance by JamesonNetworks on Thursday November 10, 2022 @11:15AM (#33548658)

I haven’t looked at any data, but I wonder if the cold -> asthma correlation might be reversed, ie asthma as a condition leads to more vulnerability to colds

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Re:Flu and colds are back with a vengeance by bsder on Friday November 11, 2022 @02:13AM (#33558073)

There is at least some pathogen->asthma correlation.

One of the things that doctors did was compare asthma rates between people who were already working from home to asthma rates of people who suddenly got thrown home due to Covid.

Asmtha went down more than expected in the people who suddenly got thrown home than in the folks who were already working from home. Since both groups faced roughly the same kind of environmental conditions (ie. pollution going down due to less driving), the excess decrease is posited to be purely due to pathogens.

Apparently, a not insignifcant chunk of asthma attacks are due to basically swimming around in continuous, low levels of pathogenic exposure.

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