Risk of mortality in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern 202012/1: matched cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To establish whether there is any change in mortality from infection with a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, designated a variant of concern (VOC-202012/1) in December 2020, compared with circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants.

Design

Matched cohort study.

Setting

Community based (pillar 2) covid-19 testing centres in the UK using the TaqPath assay (a proxy measure of VOC-202012/1 infection).

Participants

54 906 matched pairs of participants who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in pillar 2 between 1 October 2020 and 29 January 2021, followed-up until 12 February 2021. Participants were matched on age, sex, ethnicity, index of multiple deprivation, lower tier local authority region, and sample date of positive specimens, and differed only by detectability of the spik

SUBMITTER: Challen R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7941603 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature