Age-specific transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 during the first 2 years of the pandemic
© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of National Academy of Sciences..
During its first 2 years, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic manifested as multiple waves shaped by complex interactions between variants of concern, non-pharmaceutical interventions, and the immunological landscape of the population. Understanding how the age-specific epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 has evolved throughout the pandemic is crucial for informing policy decisions. In this article, we aimed to develop an inference-based modeling approach to reconstruct the burden of true infections and hospital admissions in children, adolescents, and adults over the seven waves of four variants (wild-type, Alpha, Delta, and Omicron BA.1) during the first 2 years of the pandemic, using the Netherlands as the motivating example. We find that reported cases are a considerable underestimate and a generally poor predictor of true infection burden, especially because case reporting differs by age. The contribution of children and adolescents to total infection and hospitalization burden increased with successive variants and was largest during the Omicron BA.1 period. However, the ratio of hospitalizations to infections decreased with each subsequent variant in all age categories. Before the Delta period, almost all infections were primary infections occurring in naive individuals. During the Delta and Omicron BA.1 periods, primary infections were common in children but relatively rare in adults who experienced either reinfections or breakthrough infections. Our approach can be used to understand age-specific epidemiology through successive waves in other countries where random community surveys uncovering true SARS-CoV-2 dynamics are absent but basic surveillance and statistics data are available.
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2024 |
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2024 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:3 |
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PNAS nexus - 3(2024), 2 vom: 01. Feb., Seite pgae024 |
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Englisch |
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Boldea, Otilia [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Revised 10.02.2024 published: Electronic-eCollection Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
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10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae024 |
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