Transmissibility, hospitalization, and intensive care admissions due to omicron compared to delta variants of SARS-CoV-2 in Catalonia: A cohort study and ecological analysis

• Main Authors: Martí Català (Author), Ermengol Coma (Author), Sergio Alonso (Author), Cristina Andrés (Author), Ignacio Blanco (Author), Andrés Antón (Author), Antoni E. Bordoy (Author), Pere-Joan Cardona (Author), Francesc Fina (Author), Elisa Martró (Author), Manuel Medina (Author), Núria Mora (Author), Verónica Saludes (Author), Clara Prats (Author), Daniel Prieto-Alhambra (Author), Enrique Alvarez-Lacalle (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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PurposeWe aim to compare the severity of infections between omicron and delta variants in 609,352 SARS-CoV-2 positive cases using local hospitalization, vaccination, and variants data from the Catalan Health Care System (which covers around 7. 8 million people).MethodsWe performed a substitution mod...