Research shows that patients with delta variants are at greater risk of hospitalization

people Infected delta A study showed that the risk of Covid-19 variants requiring treatment in the hospital is twice that of the Alpha strain.

Researchers viewed more than 43,000 cases U.K Between March and May, their research results were published in the medical journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

Nearly three-quarters of the coronavirus cases in the study occurred in people who were not vaccinated, and 1.8% of them occurred in people who were twice vaccinated.

According to the study, approximately one-fifth of the patients were admitted within two weeks of the first positive test, accounting for 2.3% of Delta cases and 2.2% of Alpha variant cases, which were initially detected in Kent.

The researchers then adjusted these numbers to take into account other factors to determine that the Delta variant has more than doubled the risk of admission to the hospital compared to the Alpha variant.

These include a person’s age, race, and vaccination status.

Dr. Gavin Dabrera is one of the lead authors of the study and an epidemiological consultant to the National Infection Service. Public Health England “This study confirms previous findings that people infected with Delta are more likely to require hospitalization than people infected with Alpha, although most of the cases in the analysis were not vaccinated.

“We already know that vaccination provides excellent protection for Delta, and since this variant accounts for more than 98% of Covid-19 cases in the UK, it is vital that those who have not received two doses of the vaccine get vaccinated as soon as possible.

“If you have Covid-19 symptoms, it is still important to stay at home and get a PCR test as soon as possible.”

The author said that it is impossible to draw conclusions about the risk of people who are vaccinated and continue to infect. Research has shown that there is a link between vaccination and the prevention of serious illnesses caused by the coronavirus.

Data from British government It shows that 88.2% of people 16 years and older have received at least one dose of the vaccine, for a total of 90.2 million doses.

One of the lead authors of the study, Dr. Anne Presanis, a senior statistician from the MRC Department of Biostatistics at the University of Cambridge, said: “Our analysis emphasizes that without vaccinations, any Delta epidemic will bring more to health care than the Alpha epidemic. Come with a greater burden.