Higher in-hospital mortality in SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant infection compared to influenza infection—Insights from the CORONA Germany study

• Jannis Dickow ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jannis Dickow, Melanie A. Gunawardene

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Asklepios Hospital St. Georg, Department of Cardiology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

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• Melanie A. Gunawardene ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jannis Dickow, Melanie A. Gunawardene

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

  Affiliation Asklepios Hospital St. Georg, Department of Cardiology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

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• Stephan Willems,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Asklepios Hospital St. Georg, Department of Cardiology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

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• Johannes Feldhege,

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

  Affiliation Asklepios Proresearch, Research Institute, Hamburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4665-5235

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• Peter Wohlmuth,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, Asklepios Proresearch, Research Institute, Hamburg, Germany

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• Martin Bachmann,

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

  Affiliation Asklepios Hospital Harburg, Department of Intensive Care and Ventilatory Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

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• Martin W. Bergmann,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Asklepios Hospital Wandsbek, Department of Internal Medicine – Cardiology and Pneumology, Hamburg, Germany, Asklepios Hospital Altona, Department of Cardiology and Internal Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

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• Wolfgang Gesierich,

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

  Affiliation Asklepios Hospital Munich-Gauting, Department of Pneumology, Munich, Germany

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• Lorenz Nowak,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Asklepios Hospital München-Gauting, Department of Intensive Care and Ventilation Medicine, Munich, Germany

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• Ulrich-Frank Pape,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Asklepios Hospital St. Georg, Department of Internal medicine - Gastroenterology, Hamburg, Germany

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• Ruediger Schreiber,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Asklepios West-Clinic, Department Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

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• Sebastian Wirtz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Asklepios Hospital Barmbek, Department Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

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• Raphael Twerenbold,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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• Sara Sheikhzadeh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, Asklepios Proresearch, Research Institute, Hamburg, Germany, Asklepios Hospitals, Hamburg, Germany

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• Nele Gessler

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: n.gessler@asklepios.com

  Affiliations Asklepios Hospital St. Georg, Department of Cardiology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, Asklepios Proresearch, Research Institute, Hamburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5626-7749

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