{"id":9991,"date":"2021-05-24T11:51:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9991"},"modified":"2021-05-25T11:52:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T18:52:17","slug":"public-health-and-health-systems-impacts-of-sars-cov-2-variants-of-concern-a-rapid-scoping-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/24\/public-health-and-health-systems-impacts-of-sars-cov-2-variants-of-concern-a-rapid-scoping-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Health and Health Systems Impacts of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern A Rapid Scoping Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A rapid review of the B.1.1.7, B.1.351, and P.1 SARS-CoV-2 variants (n=37 studies and 21 guidance documents) found evidence for potential increased risks of hospitalization and death associated with the B.1.1.7 variant. While six studies in the review found higher mortality risk associated with B.1.1.7, ranging from 15-67%, three found no differences. The authors found that non-pharmaceutical interventions, such as physical distancing and contact-tracing, were key components of public health responses in addition to vaccination plans.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Curran et al.\u00a0(May 22, 2021). Public Health and Health Systems Impacts of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern A Rapid Scoping Review. Pre-print downloaded May 24 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.05.20.21257517\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.05.20.21257517<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A rapid review of the B.1.1.7, B.1.351, and P.1 SARS-CoV-2 variants (n=37 studies and 21 guidance documents) found evidence for potential increased risks of hospitalization and death associated with the B.1.1.7 variant. While six studies in the review found higher mortality risk associated with B.1.1.7, ranging from 15-67%, three found no differences&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/24\/public-health-and-health-systems-impacts-of-sars-cov-2-variants-of-concern-a-rapid-scoping-review\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29,141],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-9991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","tag-variant","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9992,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9991\/revisions\/9992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9991"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}