Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Dynamics of a national Omicron SARS-CoV-2 epidemic during January 2022 in England

  • Paul Elliott,
  • Oliver Eales,
  • Barbara Bodinier,
  • David Tang,
  • Haowei Wang,
  • Jakob Jonnerby,
  • David Haw,
  • Joshua Elliott,
  • Matthew Whitaker,
  • Caroline E. Walters,
  • Christina Atchison,
  • Peter J. Diggle,
  • Andrew J. Page,
  • Alexander J. Trotter,
  • Deborah Ashby,
  • Wendy Barclay,
  • Graham Taylor,
  • Helen Ward,
  • Ara Darzi,
  • Graham S. Cooke,
  • Marc Chadeau-Hyam,
  • Christl A. Donnelly

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32121-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The REACT-1 study measures the community prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in England through repeated cross-sectional surveys. Here, the authors present data from REACT-1 that document the increase in infection prevalence, particularly among children, associated with the Omicron variant in January 2022.