Host or pathogen-related factors in COVID-19 severity? - Authors' reply

Affiliations

¹ Medical Research Council Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BU, UK.
² Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³ Medical Research Council Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BU, UK; Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁴ Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BU, UK.
⁵ Medical Research Council Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BU, UK. Electronic address: s.bhatt@imperial.ac.uk.

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Lucy C Okell et al. Lancet. 2020.

. 2020 Oct 31;396(10260):1397.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32212-1.

¹ Medical Research Council Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BU, UK.
² Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³ Medical Research Council Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BU, UK; Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁴ Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BU, UK.
⁵ Medical Research Council Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BU, UK. Electronic address: s.bhatt@imperial.ac.uk.

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Have deaths from COVID-19 in Europe plateaued due to herd immunity?
Okell LC, Verity R, Watson OJ, Mishra S, Walker P, Whittaker C, Katzourakis A, Donnelly CA, Riley S, Ghani AC, Gandy A, Flaxman S, Ferguson NM, Bhatt S. Okell LC, et al. Lancet. 2020 Jun 20;395(10241):e110-e111. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31357-X. Epub 2020 Jun 11. Lancet. 2020. PMID: 32534627 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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