Impact of Wearing Face Masks on Patients with Severe Asthma During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Kyoung-Hee Sohn,1 Myung-Nam Lee,2 Da Woon Sim,3 Sujeong Kim,4 You Sook Cho,5 Hyouk-Soo Kwon,5 Sang-Heon Kim6 1Division of Pulmonology and Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyung Hee University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea; 2Department of Nursing, College of Health Science, Kangwon National University Samcheok, Samcheok-si, Gangwon-do, South Korea; 3Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Chonnam National University Hospital, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, South Korea; 4Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, South Korea; 5Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea; 6Division of Pulmonary Medicine and Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, South KoreaCorrespondence: Hyouk-Soo Kwon, Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, 88, Olympic-ro 43-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul, 05505, Korea, Email [email protected] Sang-Heon Kim, Division of Pulmonary Medicine and Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, Hanyang University Hospital, Hanyang University College of Medicine, 222 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, 04763, Korea, Email [email protected]

Keywords

• face masks
• severe asthma