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Intrinsic and effective severity of COVID-19 cases infected with the ancestral strain and Omicron BA.2 variant in Hong Kong

2023-02-21

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Background</h4> Understanding severity of infections with SARS-CoV-2 and its variants is crucial to inform public health measures. Here we used COVID-19 patient data from Hong Kong to characterise the severity profile of COVID-19 and to examine factors associated with fatality of infection. <h4>Methods</h4> Time-varying and age-specific effective severity measured by case-hospitalization r...

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Literature Corpus work: 188086c1-4321-562c-b358-fabddd939a43
DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.13.23285848

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