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ArticleThe Journal of infection2023

Significantly lower infection fatality rates associated with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron (B.1.1.529) infection in children and young people: Active, prospective national surveillance, January-March 2022, England.

Erjola Hani, Marta Bertran, Annabel Powell, Hannah Williams, Paul Birrell, Daniela DeAngelis, Mary E Ramsay, Godwin Oligbu, Shamez N Ladhani

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Article in The Journal of infection, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. COVID-19 and Influenza Deaths in Australian Children 2018-2023: A National Case Analysis.Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society · 2025
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  2. Does equipoise exist for masking children for COVID-19?Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Erjola HaniImmunisation and Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Division, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom.
Marta BertranImmunisation and Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Division, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom.
Annabel PowellImmunisation and Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Division, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom.
Hannah WilliamsJoint Modelling Team (JMT), UK Health Security Agency, UK; Emergency Preparedness, Response and Resilience, UK Health Security Agency, Porton Down, SP4 0JG, UK.
Paul BirrellJoint Modelling Team (JMT), UK Health Security Agency, UK; MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Statistical Modelling and Economics, UK Health Security Agency, Colindale, United Kingdom.
Daniela DeAngelisMRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Mary E RamsayImmunisation and Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Division, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom.
Godwin OligbuImmunisation and Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Division, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom; Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group, St George's University of London, London, United Kingdom.
Shamez N LadhaniImmunisation and Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Division, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom; Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group, St George's University of London, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: shamez.ladhani@ukhsa.gov.uk.

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_UU_00002/11
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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COVID-19SARS-CoV-2AdolescentChildEnglandHumansProspective Studies

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PMID36706963
PMCPMC9872565

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