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Differences in Case-Fatality-Rate of Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variants
  • Jing Liu,
  • Haozhen Wei,
  • Daihai He
Jing Liu
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Haozhen Wei
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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Daihai He
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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Abstract

Variants of Severe-Acute-Respiratory-Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused tremendous impact globally. It has been widely reported that the Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant is less deadly than the Delta (B.1.617.2) variant, presumably due to immunity from vaccination and previous infection. When measuring the severity of a variant, Case-Fatality-Rate (CFR) is often estimated. The purpose of this work is to calculate the change in CFR of different variants over time from a large number of countries/regions since the start of the pandemic in 2020.
Jun 2023Published in Public Health in Practice volume 5 on pages 100350. 10.1016/j.puhip.2022.100350