Higher in-hospital mortality in SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant infection compared to influenza infection-Insights from the CORONA Germany study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the emergence of new subvariants, the disease severity of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 has attenuated. This study aimed to compare the disease severity in patients hospitalized with omicron variant infection to those with influenza infection.

Methods

We compared data from the multicenter observational, prospective, epidemiological "CORONA Germany" (Clinical Outcome and Risk in hospitalized COVID-19 patients) study on patients infected with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 to retrospective data on influenza infection cases from November 2016 to August 2022. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 cases were classified as wild-type/delta variant before January 2022, or omicron variant from January 2022 onward. The prima

SUBMITTER: Dickow J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10529565 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature