Challenges in Inferring Intrinsic Severity of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant

N Engl J Med. 2022 Feb 17;386(7):e14. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2119682. Epub 2022 Feb 2.

Authors

Roby P Bhattacharyya¹, William P Hanage¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (R.P.B.), and the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (W.P.H.) - both in Boston.

PMID: 35108465
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2119682

No abstract available

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / epidemiology
COVID-19 / mortality
COVID-19 / transmission
COVID-19 / virology*
Humans
Patient Acuity*
SARS-CoV-2 / pathogenicity*
South Africa / epidemiology
Virulence

Supplementary concepts

SARS-CoV-2 variants