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Early assessment of the clinical severity of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in South Africa

2021-12-21

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Background</h4> The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant of concern (VOC) almost completely replaced other variants in South Africa during November 2021, and was associated with a rapid increase in COVID-19 cases. We aimed to assess clinical severity of individuals infected with Omicron, using S Gene Target Failure (SGTF) on the Thermo Fisher Scientific TaqPath COVID-19 PCR test as a proxy. <h4>Methods...

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Literature Corpus work: 23241a1d-92d0-5919-a89a-349ef13ab2e2
DOI: 10.1101/2021.12.21.21268116

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