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The burden of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Severe Illness in South Africa March 2020-August 2022: A synthesis of epidemiological data

2024-11-04

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Introduction</h4> Data on burden of SARS-CoV-2 infections by age group and for different severity levels are lacking. We estimated the South African SARS-CoV-2 disease burden and severity, describing changes in the shape of the disease burden pyramid with successive waves. <h4>Methods</h4> We estimated SARS-CoV-2 medically and non-medically attended illness stratified by severity (mild, sever...

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Literature Corpus work: c27ff1e7-d236-50dc-a501-856dd0d57db7
DOI: 10.1101/2024.10.30.24316404

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