Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

COVID-19 disease severity in US Veterans infected during Omicron and Delta variant predominant periods

  • Florian B. Mayr,
  • Victor B. Talisa,
  • Alexander D. Castro,
  • Obaid S. Shaikh,
  • Saad B. Omer,
  • Adeel A. Butt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31402-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Infection with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant appears to cause milder disease in the general population than infection with Delta. Here the authors use data from the US Department of Veterans Affairs and demonstrate that this also applies to infection in an at-risk population of older age and with more co-morbidities.