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December 28, 2021SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaOpen Access

Decreased severity of disease during the first global omicron variant covid-19 outbreak in a large hospital in tshwane, south africa

Fareed Abdullah Jonathan E. Myers Debashis Basu Gregory R. Tintinger Veronica Ueckermann Mdungazi Andres Mathebula Rajiev Ramlall Simon Spoor T. de Villiers Z. Van der Walt J.H. Cloete Priya Soma‐Pillay Paul Rheeder Fathima Paruk Andreas Engelbrecht Vidya Lalloo M. Myburg Jesne Kistan Wesley van Hougenhouck-Tulleken Michael T. Boswell Glenda Gray Richard Welch Lucille Blumberg Waasila Jassat

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There was decreased severity of COVID-19 disease in the Omicron-driven fourth wave in the City of Tshwane, its first global epicentre.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69da8c2c387cf70698686e50 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.12.357

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