Severity of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 lineage among hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Belgium

• Nina Van Goethem ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nina.vangoethem@sciensano.be

  Affiliations Scientific Directorate of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institut de recherche expérimentale et clinique, Faculty of Public Health, Université catholique de Louvain, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7316-6990

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• Mathil Vandromme,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Scientific Directorate of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium

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• Herman Van Oyen,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Scientific Directorate of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium

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• Freek Haarhuis,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Scientific Directorate of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium

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• Ruben Brondeel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Scientific Directorate of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium

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• Lucy Catteau,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Scientific Directorate of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium

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• Emmanuel André,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations University Hospitals Leuven, Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Reference Centre for Respiratory Pathogens, Leuven, Belgium, KU Leuven, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Laboratory Clinical Bacteriology and Mycology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Leuven, Belgium

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• Lize Cuypers,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University Hospitals Leuven, Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Reference Centre for Respiratory Pathogens, Leuven, Belgium

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• Belgian Collaborative Group on COVID-19 Hospital surveillance ,

  ¶Membership of the Belgian Collaborative group on COVID-19 Hospital surveillance is listed in the Acknowledgments.

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• COVID-19 Genomics Belgium consortium ,

  ¶Membership of the COVID-19 Genomics Belgium consortium is listed in the Acknowledgments.

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• Koen Blot,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Scientific Directorate of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium

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• Ben Serrien

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Scientific Directorate of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5542-997X

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