Pediatric intensive care admissions for severe acute asthma during the COVID-19 pandemic
Somayeh Bazdar1, 2, 3*, Sarah van den Berg4, 5*, Niels W. Rutjes4, Lizan D. Bloemsma1, 2, 3, George S. Downward6, 7, Letty A. De Weger8, Suzanne W.J. Terheggen-Lagro3, Yolanda de Wit-van Wijck1, 2, 3, Anke H. Maitland van der Zee1, 2, 3,4, Berber Kapitein5
  1. Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  2. Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  3. Amsterdam Public Health, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  4. Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  5. Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  6. Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  7. Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  8. Leiden University Medical Center, Department of Pulmonology and Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Postbus 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
* Co-first author: Both Somayeh Bazdar and Sarah van den Berg are first authors and contributed equally.
Running title : Severe acute asthma during COVID-19