New research may have people with asthma breathing a little easier: Doctors found the airway disease doesn't raise the risk of being hospitalized due to COVID-19. The researchers also noted that people with asthma weren't more likely than people without it to need a ventilator to help them breathe. … In the new study, the researchers reviewed 15 studies on COVID-19 infections to see how many people hospitalized had asthma. They also looked at more than 400 patients treated for COVID-19 at the University of Colorado Hospital, to see whether the rates of ventilator use were different in people with asthma.