Jornal de Pneumologia e Doenças Respiratórias

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The Official Position Statement from the Saudi Pediatric Pulmonology Association on How to Treat Paediatric Asthma in the COVID-19 Period (SPPA)

Smith CA

Coronaviruses are a large family of contagions that infect humans, which may affect in mild symptoms analogous to those of the common cold wave. COVID- 19 is most recent subtype analogous or indeed worse than the two former epidemic strains which were the severe acute respiratory pattern coronavirus (SARS- cov) and the Middle East respiratory pattern coronavirus (MERS- cov). The first cases of COVID- 19 surfaced in December 2019. Since also, the contagion causing the complaint has infected further than four million people around the globe and led to hundreds of thousands deaths. We suppose addressing the operation of asthma in the period of this epidemic is important for several reasons high frequence of asthma in Saudi Arabia, further, majorities were unbridled complaint. The statement will give special instructions and answers to common questions of croakers dealing with asthmatic children during this epidemic.