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Editor, Senior Moderator
Open Forum Infect Dis
. 2025 Mar 10;12(3)
faf115.
doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaf115. eCollection 2025 Mar. Rates of Hospitalization and Death due to COVID-19 in US Veterans With SARS-CoV-2 Infection in the XBB-, JN.1-, and KP-Predominant Eras
Taeyoung Choi[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Yan Xie[SUP] 1 2 3 4 [/SUP], Ziyad Al-Aly[SUP] 1 2 5 6 7 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Between September 2023 and October 2024, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 evolved through 3 variant-predominant eras: XBB, JN.1, and KP. Among 130 263 Department of Veterans Affairs patients with coronavirus disease 2019, hospitalization odds declined for JN.1 (0.81; 95% CI, 0.74-0.89) and KP (0.80; 95% CI, 0.72-0.88) compared with XBB, with consistently low in-hospital death rates across all eras.
Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; death; hospitalization; variants.
. 2025 Mar 10;12(3)
doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaf115. eCollection 2025 Mar. Rates of Hospitalization and Death due to COVID-19 in US Veterans With SARS-CoV-2 Infection in the XBB-, JN.1-, and KP-Predominant Eras
Taeyoung Choi[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Yan Xie[SUP] 1 2 3 4 [/SUP], Ziyad Al-Aly[SUP] 1 2 5 6 7 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 40110421
- PMCID: PMC11919815
- DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofaf115
Between September 2023 and October 2024, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 evolved through 3 variant-predominant eras: XBB, JN.1, and KP. Among 130 263 Department of Veterans Affairs patients with coronavirus disease 2019, hospitalization odds declined for JN.1 (0.81; 95% CI, 0.74-0.89) and KP (0.80; 95% CI, 0.72-0.88) compared with XBB, with consistently low in-hospital death rates across all eras.
Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; death; hospitalization; variants.