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People with allergic conditions such as hay fever have a lower risk of being infected with COVID-19, a new study suggests.
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London looked at more than 16,000 adults in the UK between May 2020 and February 2021
They found that hay fever and eczema sufferers are nearly 25 percent less likely to contract the virus.
What's more, people with asthma were almost 40 percent less likely to be infected, even if they used steroid inhalers.
A new study from Queen Mary University of London found that people with allergic conditions such as hay fever, rhinitis, atopic diseases and asthma had an up to 40% lower risk of COVID-19 infection (file image)
For the study, published on Thursday in the journal Thorax, the team recruited 16,081 adults between May 1, 2020 and February 5, 2021.
Of the participants, 15,227 filled out at least one follow-up questionnaire and 14,348 people completed the final
