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- The emergence of the Omicron BF.7 variant has raised concerns about a new wave of COVID-19, particularly in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, highlighting the need for risk assessment of patients needing management.
- The study analyzed individual data like age, sex, symptoms, and vaccination status of COVID-19 patients to evaluate the severity of the disease among those infected with BF.7.
- Findings showed that patients with severe symptoms had significantly different clinical indicators compared to mild cases, emphasizing the importance of monitoring these indicators for better patient management.
Article Abstract
Background: Fear of a global public health issue and fresh infection wave in the persistent COVID-19 pandemic has been enflamed by the appearance of the novel variant Omicron BF.7 lineage. Recently, it has been seeing the novel Omicron subtype BF.7 lineage has sprawled exponentially in Hohhot. More than anything, risk stratification is significant to ascertain patients infected with COVID-19 who the most need in-hospital or in-home management. The study intends to understand the clinical severity and epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 Omicron subvariant BF.7. lineage via gathering and analyzing the cases with Omicron subvariant in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia.
Methods: Based upon this, we linked variant Omicron BF.7 individual-level information including sex, age, symptom, underlying conditions and vaccination record. Further, we divided the cases into various groups and assessed the severity of patients according to the symptoms of patients with COVID-19. Clinical indicators and data might help to predict disadvantage outcomes and progression among Omicron BF.7 patients.
Results: In this study, in patients with severe symptoms, some indicators from real world data such as white blood cells, AST, ALT and CRE in patients with Omicron BF.7 in severe symptoms were significantly higher than mild and asymptomatic patients, while some indicators were significantly lower.
Conclusions: Above results suggested that the indicators were associated with ponderance of clinical symptoms. Our survey emphasized the value of timely investigations of clinical data obtained by systemic study to acquire detailed information.
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