Decreased severity of disease during the first global omicron variant covid-19 outbreak in a large hospital in tshwane, south africa

Abdullah, Fareed; E. Myers, Jonathan; Basu, Debashis; R. Tintinger, Gregory; Ueckermann, Veronica; Andres Mathebula, Mdungazi; Ramlall, Rajiev; Spoor, Simon; de Villiers, T.; Van der Walt, Z.; Cloete, J.H.; Soma‐Pillay, Priya; Rheeder, Paul; Paruk, Fathima; Engelbrecht, Andreas; Lalloo, Vidya; Myburg, M.; Kistan, Jesne; van Hougenhouck-Tulleken, Wesley; T. Boswell, Michael; Gray, Glenda; Welch, Richard; Blumberg, Lucille; Jassat, Waasila

doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2021.12.357

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Decreased severity of disease during the first global omicron variant covid-19 outbreak in a large hospital in tshwane, south africa

Published in International Journal of Infectious Diseases • Dec 28, 2021

Authors:

Fareed Abdullah

Jonathan E. Myers

Debashis Basu

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) first reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019 is a global pandemic that is threatening the health and wellbeing of people worldwide. To date there have been more than 274 million reported cases and 5.3 million deaths. The Omicron variant first ...

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Outbreak

Medicine

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

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