LONDON, Aug 27 - people who get the Alpha variant of the coronavirus are twice as likely to be hospitalised as those infected by Delta variant which was first detected in England last year, a study showed on Friday.
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Our analysis shows that any Delta outbreaks will impose a greater burden on healthcare than an Alpha epidemic, Anne Presanis, one of the study's lead authors and a University of Cambridge statistician, said.
The study was based on cases between March and May during the early stages of Britain's CoVID 19 vaccination campaign, so it was not able to assess the extra risk of hospital admission for unvaccinated or partially vaccinated people.
The study, published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, was the largest to analyse COVID - 19 cases confirmed by virus genome sequencing.