Estimating disease severity of Omicron and Delta SARS-CoV-2 infections

Alex Sigal; Ron Milo; Waasila Jassat

doi:10.1038/s41577-022-00720-5

Estimating disease severity of Omicron and Delta SARS-CoV-2 infections

Alex Sigal^*
, Ron Milo
, Waasila Jassat

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 has been reported to cause milder disease in adults but lead to increased hospital admissions in children. How can we compare disease severity in Omicron and Delta infections, and how should differences be interpreted?

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	267-269
Number of pages	3
Journal	Nature Reviews Immunology
Volume	22
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41577-022-00720-5
State	Published - May 2022
Externally published	Yes

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