S.E. Moses

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the severity of the delta variant compared with the alpha variant by determining the relative risk of hospital attendance outcomes and found that outbreaks of the Delta variant in unvaccinated populations might lead to a greater burden on health-care services than the alpha variants.

TL;DR: The International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infections Consortium (ISARIC) WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol UK (CCP-UK) study as discussed by the authors is an ongoing, prospective cohort study recruiting inpatients from 260 hospitals in England, Scotland, and Wales, conducted by the ISARIC Coronavirus Clinical Characterization Consortium.

TL;DR: One in six women had active HBV requiring treatment or high HBV-DNA levels that would benefit from antiviral treatment to reduce the transmission risk.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed RT-PCR swab-positivity in the REAL-time Assessment of Community Transmissibility (RACT) in many countries associated with the Delta variant.

TL;DR: In this paper, a prospective, multicentre cohort study included patients of any age admitted to hospital with a confirmed or highly suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection leading to COVID-19 between Jan 17 and Aug 10, 2020, and secondary outcomes were disease severity at presentation, admission to critical care, receipt of invasive ventilation, non-invasive ventilation, use of supplementary oxygen, and acute kidney injury.