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. 2021 Jun 26;397(10293):2461-2462.
doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01358-1. Epub 2021 Jun 14.

SARS-CoV-2 Delta VOC in Scotland: demographics, risk of hospital admission, and vaccine effectiveness

Aziz Sheikh  1 , Jim McMenamin  2 , Bob Taylor  2 , Chris Robertson  2 ; Public Health Scotland and the EAVE II Collaborators
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SARS-CoV-2 Delta VOC in Scotland: demographics, risk of hospital admission, and vaccine effectiveness

Aziz Sheikh et al. Lancet. .
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Conflict of interest statement

AS, JM, and CR are members of the Scottish Government's COVID-19 Advisory Group. AS and CR are members of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) risk stratification subgroup. JM is a member of NERVTAG. CR is a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling. AS is a member of AstraZeneca's Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Advisory Group. All roles are unremunerated. JM, BT, and CR are employed by Public Health Scotland. Acknowledgments are listed in the appendix.

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