The effective reproductive number of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 is several times relative to Delta-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The effective reproductive number of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 is several times relative to Delta

Published:2022-03-09 Issue:3 Volume:29 Page:
ISSN:1195-1982
Container-title:Journal of Travel Medicine
language:en
Short-container-title:

Author:

Liu Ying¹²^ORCID,Rocklöv Joacim³⁴⁵⁶

Affiliation:

1. School of International Business , , Zhangzhou, 363105, China

2. Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College , , Zhangzhou, 363105, China

3. Heidelberg Institute of Global Health & Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Computing , , Heidelberg, 69120, Germany

4. Heidelberg University , , Heidelberg, 69120, Germany

5. Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine , Section of Sustainable Health, , Umeå, SE-90187, Sweden

6. Umeå University , Section of Sustainable Health, , Umeå, SE-90187, Sweden

Abstract

Our review found the effective reproduction number and basic reproduction number of the Omicron variant elicited 3.8 and 2.5 times higher transmissibility than the Delta variant, respectively. The Omicron variant has an average basic and effective reproduction number of 8.2 and 3.6.

Funder

Youth and Middlescent Teacher Educational Research Project of Fujian Province

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

General Medicine

Link

https://academic.oup.com/jtm/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/jtm/taac037/43246557/taac037.pdf

Reference8 articles.

1. The reproductive number of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 is far higher compared to the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 virus;Liu;J Travel Med,2021

2. The Reproductive number of COVID-19 is higher compared to SARS coronavirus;Liu;J Travel Med,2020

3. How severe are Omicron infections?;Ledford;Nature,2021