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.