{"id":5643,"date":"2024-01-02T17:18:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T23:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5643"},"modified":"2024-01-02T17:18:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T23:18:29","slug":"covid-flu-severity-similar-but-omicron-ba-5-patients-more-likely-to-die-2021-22-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/01\/02\/covid-flu-severity-similar-but-omicron-ba-5-patients-more-likely-to-die-2021-22-study-suggests\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID, flu severity similar, but Omicron BA.5 patients more likely to die, 2021-22 study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/covid-19\/covid-flu-severity-similar-omicron-ba5-patients-more-likely-die-2021-22-study-suggests\">CIDRAP<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2021 and 2022, the proportion of hospitalized COVID-19 and influenza patients admitted to a US intensive care unit (ICU) were similar, but COVID-19 patients admitted during the Omicron BA.5 variant period were more likely to die in the hospital, according to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ofid\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/ofid\/ofad702\/7504587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a>&nbsp;published late last week in&nbsp;<em>Open Forum Infectious Diseases<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A team led by US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers analyzed medical records and COVID-19 and flu surveillance network data from selected counties in 14 states from October 2021 to September 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;After very low levels of influenza circulation during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, circulation increased during the 2021-2022 season,&#8221; the researchers wrote. &#8220;The epidemiology of COVID-19 has also changed during the pandemic with circulation of new variants and increasing population-level immunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/covid-19\/covid-flu-severity-similar-omicron-ba5-patients-more-likely-die-2021-22-study-suggests\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"IHR rxJMpTM PyuhF jbz qUlNe U\">IHR rxJMpTM PyuhF jbz qUlNe U<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIDRAP In 2021 and 2022, the proportion of hospitalized COVID-19 and influenza patients admitted to a US intensive care unit (ICU) were similar, but COVID-19 patients admitted during the Omicron BA.5 variant period were more likely to die in the hospital, according to a&nbsp;study&nbsp;published late last week in&nbsp;Open Forum Infectious Diseases. A team led by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5644,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions\/5644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}