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. 2023 Jun 26;23:432. doi: 10.1186/s12879-023-08328-3

Table 3.

Rates of previously infected (PI) individuals in cohorts infected with different variants of SARS-CoV-2 (regardless of the vaccination status)

Study Country/Study type Description Negative cohorts
% (n/N)
Delta (or other) infected cohorts
% (n/N)
Omicron infected cohorts
% (n/N) or % (n)
P value
Lewnard et al. [58]

USA

Cohort study

15 December 2021 to 17 January 2022

(Documented PI)

-

0.4%

(84/23305)

0.5%

(1,163/222688)

NR

3 February to 17 March 2022

(Documented PI)

- -

0.6%

(75/12756) BA.1

0.4%

(7/1905) BA.2

NR
Stegger et al. [59]

Denmark

Danish COVID-19 surveillance

Rate of second infection when PI with BA.1 - 0% (0/263)

6.46% (17/263) BA.1

17.87% (47/263) BA.2

NR
Rate of second infection when PI with BA.2 - 0% (0/263)

0% (0/263) BA.1

1.14% (3/263) BA.2

NR
Rate of second infection when PI with Delta - 11.4% (30/263)

9.88% (26/263) BA.1

53.23% (140/263) BA.2

NR
Rate of second infection when PI (overall) - 11.4% (30/263)

12.54% (33/263) BA.1

72.24% (190/263) BA.2

NR
Andrews et al. [60]

UK

Test-negative case–control

Rate of PI out of the Delta and Omicron 16.5% (260,073/1572621) 1.8% (3,754/204154) 11.1% (98,150/886774) NR
Espenhain et al. [38]

Denmark

Data from the routine Danish surveillance of COVID-19

PI - 0.9% (160/19137) 4.3% (34/785) NR
Davies et al. [42]

South Africa

Cohort study

HR for PI (vs. None) - -

Death

1.10 (0.63—1.92)

Severe hospitalization or death

0.60 (0.37—0.98)

Hospitalization or death

0.28 (0.19—0.40)

-
PI -

Wave 3 (Delta, 20/5/2021 to 23/6/2021)

3.2% (140/4403)

Wave 4 (Omicron, 14/11/2021 to 11/12/2021)

11.3% (580/5144)

-
Peralta-Santos et al. [49]

Portugal

Cohort Study

National network group of laboratories

PI - 1.6% (146/9397) 6.8% (449/6581)  < 0.001
Wolter et al. [51]

South Africa

Data linkage study

aPI - 4.5% (43/948) (non SGTF)

10.4% (1100/10 547)

(SGTF)

0.18
Ward et al. [52]

UK

Data linkage

aPI

 PI - 1% (2211/221146) 6.6% (53,724/814003) NR
Garg et al. [53]

India

Cohort study

 PI - 8.2% (6/182) 17.1% (14/82) NR
Krutikov et al. [54]

UK

Prospective cohort study

 PI -

Pre-Omicron

4.3% (17/400)

12.7% (236/1864)  < 0.0001
Shrestha et al. [36]

USA

Retrospective cohort study

PI - -

2.9%

(88/4585) symptomatic

1.5%

(2/133) hospitalized

-
Hajjo et al. [47]

Jordan

Questionnaire based study

Reinfected within 90 days - -

8.6%

(43/500)

of which:

41.9% (18/43) asymptomatic

44.2% (19/43) mild

2.3% (1/43) moderate

2.3% (1/43) severe

9.3% (4/43) unspecified

-
Smith-Jeffcoat et al. [37]

USA

Cohort (convention attendees)

PI 0% (0/7) - 6.25% (1/16) NR
Sharma et al. [40]

Rajasthan, India

Cohort study

PI - - 43.2% (126) -
MMWR [43]

USA

Cohort study

PI - - 14% (6/43) -
Madhi et al. [44]

South Africa

seroepidemiologic survey

PI - - 2.8% (195) -
Maisa et al. [48]

France

Questionnaire based

PI - -

14% (39/278)

2% hospitalized (7/294) – of these 7, 2 PI

-
Qassim et al. [50]

Qatar

Cross sectional study

No PI - - 90.8% (141,839) -
PI < 90 days before the study - - 0.4% (560) -
PI overall - - 8.8% (13,803) -

N: Total number of subjects in the cohort

n: number of subjects who were PI or as specified in each row

SGTF samples with S gene target failure (strongly indicative of an Omicron variant)

aReinfection was defined by an individual having at least one positive SARS-CoV-2 test more than 90 days before the current positive test