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Trends in the incidence of asthma, atopic dermatitis, and multiple sclerosis before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic in a US claims database
Citation: Zhu K, Barberio J, Tsao N, Mor A, Harikrishnan V, Li X, et al. (2026) Trends in the incidence of asthma, atopic dermatitis, and multiple sclerosis before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic in a US claims database. PLoS One 21(7): e0355103. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0355103 Editor: Omid Beiki, Karolinska Institutet, SWEDEN Received: February 2, 2026; Accepted: July 16, 2026; Published: July 30, 2026 Copyright: © 2026 Zhu et al.
Assessing the Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Relative Incidence Rates in United States Claims Data
Conflicts of Interest Julie Barberio, Kexin Zhu, Venkatesh Harikrishnan, Xinyu Li, and Sarah-Jo Sinnott are employees of Sanofi and may hold shares and/or stock options in the company. Supporting Information Filename Description pds70246-sup-0001-supinfo.docxWord 2007 document , 8.5 MB Data S1: pds70246-sup-0001-supinfo.docx. References 1 World Health Organization, “Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic,” (2025), https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019.
Comparing Two Approaches to Identify Individuals with Severe Asthma in United States Claims Data
Purpose Given the increased likelihood for individuals with severe asthma to experience comorbidities, disease complications, emergency room visits, and hospitalizations, the ability to stratify asthma populations on severity is often important. Although pharmacoepidemiologic studies using administrative healthcare databases sometimes categorize asthma severity, there is no consensus on an approach.
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