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RESEARCH LETTER

Impact of Wearing Face Masks on Patients with Severe Asthma During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kyoung-Hee Sohn1 Division of Pulmonology and Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyung Hee University Hospital, Seoul, South KoreaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8407-8080View further author information
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Myung-Nam Lee2 Department of Nursing, College of Health Science, Kangwon National University Samcheok, Samcheok-si, Gangwon-do, South KoreaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7272-752XView further author information
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Da Woon Sim3 Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Chonnam National University Hospital, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, South KoreaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9723-0720View further author information
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Sujeong Kim4 Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, South KoreaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2494-9216View further author information
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You Sook Cho5 Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South KoreaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8767-2667View further author information
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Hyouk-Soo Kwon5 Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South KoreaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Sang-Heon Kim6 Division of Pulmonary Medicine and Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, South KoreaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 1065-1068 | Received 03 Jan 2022, Accepted 28 Apr 2022, Published online: 15 Aug 2022

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