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. 2022 Feb 16:ciac137. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciac137

Reproduction Numbers of SARS-CoV-2 Variants: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Zhanwei Du 1,2,#,, Caifen Liu 1,2,#, Chunyu Wang 1,2,#, Lingfeng Xu 1,2,3, Mingda Xu 1,2,3, Lin Wang 4, Yuan Bai 1,2, Xiaoke Xu 3, Eric H Y Lau 1,2, Peng Wu 1,2, Benjamin J Cowling 1,2,
PMCID: PMC8903374  PMID: 35171991

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose substantial risks to public health, worsened by the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants which may have a higher transmissibility and reduce vaccine effectiveness. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis on reproduction numbers of SARS-CoV-2 variants and provided pooled estimates for each variant.

Keywords: COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, reproduction number, systematic review, meta-analysis

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