Matthew L Robinson, C Paul Morris, Josh Betz, Yifan Zhang, Robert Bollinger, Natalie Wang, David R Thiemann, Amary Fall, Raghda E Eldesouki, Julie M Norton, David C Gaston, Michael Forman, Chun Huai Luo, Scott L Zeger, Amita Gupta, Brian T Garibaldi, Heba H Mostafa
Background: Prior observation has shown differences in COVID-19 hospitalization rates between SARS-CoV-2 variants, but limited information describes differences in hospitalization outcomes. Methods: Patients admitted to 5 hospitals with COVID-19 were included if they had hypoxia, tachypnea, tachycardia, or fever, and data to describe SARS-CoV-2 variant, either from whole genome sequencing, or inference when local surveillance showed ≥95% dominance of a single variant...
February 3, 2022: medRxiv