Publication date: Oct 08, 2024
The Delta variant (B. 1.617. 2) was considered the most dangerous SARS-CoV-2 strain; however, in-depth studies on its impact based on demographic and clinical characteristics of COVID-19 are scarce. We aimed to investigate the shift in demographic and clinical characteristics of the COVID-19 pandemic with the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant compared with the wild-type (WT) strain (B. 1). A cross-sectional study of COVID-19 cases in the Indian population caused by the WT strain (B. 1) and Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 was performed. The viral genomic sequence metadata containing demographic, vaccination, and patient status details (N=9500, N=6238, N=3262) were statistically analyzed. With the Delta variant, in comparison with the WT strain, a higher proportion of young individuals (
| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Pandemic | COVID-19 |
| Vaccination | demographic shift |
| Viral | epidemiology |
| Young | genomic analysis |
| pandemic | |
| population studies | |
| SARS-CoV-2 | |
| severity of illness | |
| variant | |
| virus |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | COVID-19 |