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Understanding the effect of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and the efforts taken to combat it, on specific diseases is difficult owing to the many ways in which COVID-19 is impacting patients and health care systems. A significant decrease in the utilization of emergency services for asthma exacerbation (AEX) has been reported.1 However, health care system avoidance has also been reported and has resulted in delayed or decreased primary and acute care consultations, making it difficult to assess the extent to which decreased health utilization is related to patient avoidance of health services versus actual changes in asthma control.
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