Dynamics of competing SARS-CoV-2 variants during the Omicron epidemic in England
oleh: Oliver Eales, Leonardo de Oliveira Martins, Andrew J. Page, Haowei Wang, Barbara Bodinier, David Tang, David Haw, Jakob Jonnerby, Christina Atchison, Deborah Ashby, Wendy Barclay, Graham Taylor, Graham Cooke, Helen Ward, Ara Darzi, Steven Riley, Paul Elliott, Christl A. Donnelly, Marc Chadeau-Hyam
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2022-07-01 |
Deskripsi
This study presents data from the REACT-1 SARS-CoV-2 community sampling study in England from November 2021 to March 2022. They show that the Omicron variant peaked in January with a prevalence of ~7% and that the BA.2 sublineage had a 1.5x higher reproduction number compared to other Omicron sublineages.