Clinical severity of COVID-19 in patients admitted to hospital during the omicron wave in South Africa: a retrospective observational study

• Main Authors: Waasila Jassat, FCPHM (Author), Salim S Abdool Karim, ProfPhD (Author), Caroline Mudara, MSc (Author), Richard Welch, BSc (Author), Lovelyn Ozougwu, MSc (Author), Michelle J Groome, PhD (Author), Nevashan Govender, MSc (Author), Anne von Gottberg, ProfPhD (Author), Nicole Wolter, PhD (Author), Milani Wolmarans, BOT (Author), Petro Rousseau, MPH (Author), Lucille Blumberg, DScMed (Author), Cheryl Cohen, ProfPhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: Up to the end of January, 2022, South Africa has had four recognisable COVID-19 pandemic waves, each predominantly dominated by one variant of concern: the ancestral strain with an Asp614Gly mutation during the first wave, the beta variant (B.1.351) during the second wave, the d...