COVID-19 in non-hospitalised adults caused by either SARS-CoV-2 sub-variants Omicron BA.1, BA.2, BA.4/5 or Delta associates with similar illness duration, symptom severity and viral kinetics, irrespective of vaccination history.

<h4>Background</h4>SARS-CoV-2 variant Omicron rapidly evolved over 2022, causing three waves of infection due to sub-variants BA.1, BA.2 and BA.4/5. We sought to characterise symptoms and viral loads over the course of COVID-19 infection with these sub-variants in otherwise-healthy, vacc...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Hermaleigh Townsley, Joshua Gahir, Timothy W Russell, David Greenwood, Edward J Carr, Matala Dyke, Lorin Adams, Murad Miah, Bobbi Clayton, Callie Smith, Mauro Miranda, Harriet V Mears, Chris Bailey, James R M Black, Ashley S Fowler, Margaret Crawford, Katalin Wilkinson, Matthew Hutchinson, Ruth Harvey, Nicola O'Reilly, Gavin Kelly, Robert Goldstone, Rupert Beale, Padmasayee Papineni, Tumena Corrah, Richard Gilson, Simon Caidan, Jerome Nicod, Steve Gamblin, George Kassiotis, Vincenzo Libri, Bryan Williams, Sonia Gandhi, Adam J Kucharski, Charles Swanton, David L V Bauer, Emma C Wall
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-01-01
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294897