Institutional Affiliations:
1Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergy &
Immunology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
2Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill
Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
3Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New
York, NY
4Department of Pediatrics, New York-Presbyterian
Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, NY
5Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill
Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
6Drukier
Institute for Children’s Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
7Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell
Medicine, New York, NY
Corresponding Author: Perdita Permaul, MD, Division of
Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergy and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medicine,
505 East 70th Street, Helmsley Tower #3F, New York,
NY 10021 Telephone: 646-962-3410, Fax: 646-962-0246
Email: pep9004@med.cornell.edu
Funding: This research is supported by NIH K23 AI123517 (PP);
R01 AI36082 and P01 AI110657 (JPM); and KL2 TR0002385-05 (AH).
This study received support from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH)
and Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC), including the Clinical and
Translational Science Center (CTSC) (UL1 TR000457) and Joint Clinical
Trials Office (JCTO).
Conflict of Interests: All the authors declare that there are
no conflicts of interest.
Key Words: asthma, children, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, SNP, body
mass index, BMI
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