Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern B.1.1.7, B.1.351 or P.1: data from seven EU/EEA countries, weeks 38/2020 to 10/2021.
Journal: Euro Surveillance : Bulletin Europeen Sur Les Maladies Transmissibles = European Communicable Disease Bulletin
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Abstract
We compared 19,207 cases of SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7/S gene target failure (SGTF), 436 B.1.351 and 352 P.1 to non-variant cases reported by seven European countries. COVID-19 cases with these variants had significantly higher adjusted odds ratios for hospitalisation (B.1.1.7/SGTF: 1.7, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.0-2.9; B.1.351: 3.6, 95% CI: 2.1-6.2; P.1: 2.6, 95% CI: 1.4-4.8) and B.1.1.7/SGTF and P.1 cases also for intensive care admission (B.1.1.7/SGTF: 2.3, 95% CI: 1.4-3.5; P.1: 2.2, 95% CI: 1.7-2.8).
Authors
Tjede Funk, Anastasia Pharris, Gianfranco Spiteri, Nick Bundle, Angeliki Melidou, Michael Carr, Gabriel Gonzalez, Alejandro Garcia Leon, Fiona Crispie, Lois O'connor, Niamh Murphy, Joël Mossong, Anne Vergison, Anke Wienecke Baldacchino, Tamir Abdelrahman, Flavia Riccardo, Paola Stefanelli, Angela Di Martino, Antonino Bella, Alessandra Lo Presti, Pedro Casaca, Joana Moreno, Vítor Borges, Joana Isidro, Rita Ferreira, João Gomes, Liidia Dotsenko, Heleene Suija, Jevgenia Epstein, Olga Sadikova, Hanna Sepp, Niina Ikonen, Carita Savolainen Kopra, Soile Blomqvist, Teemu Möttönen, Otto Helve, Joana Gomes Dias, Cornelia Adlhoch
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