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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course they should go back. The risk to young healthy people is truly negligible. [/quote] Tons of students with allergies and asthma in the dorms. [/quote]
Part of the problem here is that there's very little data on risk factors in teens and young adults, in part because the severity of infections in this age group is so incredibly low regardless of risk factors.  Kids dying of this still make news because it is that relatively uncommon.

While it would seem that asthma should be a risk factor, it actually doesn't seem to be the case, which is great news.

[quote]early evidence appears to show asthma doesn’t raise the risk of getting the virus, though both conditions are lung disorders.[/quote]
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200420/asthma-may-not-be-a-major-risk-factor-for-covid-19

I have a kid with asthma and a history that includes a hospitalization for weird, mycoplasma-like pneumonia a few years back.  But he's working at the grocery store.  I'm not worried about it any more than for my other kids (one of which has an immune deficiency).  Just a guess, but I think the disease process for COVID doesn't actually overlap the disease process for asthma.  Crazy, but that's what it looks like.  The immune system is super complex and its interaction with pathogens is not as well understood as we'd like.
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