THE Ομικρον is inherently as severe and deadly as the previous ones coronavirus variantsdespite the initial assumptions of some studies from various countries (Britain, Canada, South Africa) that it is more contagious, but less serious. This is the conclusion of a new major American scientific study.
The four researchers from Harvard University School of Medicine and Massachusetts General Hospital“We found that the risks of hospitalization and death were almost identical at all times (of the pandemic),” said Reuters, which published the report in Research Square, according to Reuters.
The study analyzed data on approximately 130,000 patients with Covid-19 over the past two years, at different times when different variants of the virus were prevalent worldwide. According to the researchers, at first glance the data seem to show that the morbidity and mortality rates were higher in the previous epidemic waves before Omicron. In reality, however, if the appropriate adjustments are made to the statistical analysis, in order to take into account various other factors (demographics, comorbidities, degree of vaccination of the population, etc.), the conclusion is that the risk of hospitalization and death in the last period of its prevalence Omicron is almost the same as those of previous periods and variants.
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