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Clinical severity of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 lineages in South Africa

2022-06-28

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Omicron lineages BA.4 and BA.5 drove a fifth wave of COVID-19 cases in South Africa. We assessed the severity of BA.4/BA.5 infections using the presence/absence of the S-gene target for infections diagnosed using the TaqPath PCR assay between 1 October 2021 and 26 April 2022. We linked national COVID-19 individual-level data including case, laboratory test and hospitalisation data. We a...

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Literature Corpus work: 15957310-9d6a-52c6-a1bb-578f07136a62
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1792132/v1

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