No impact of COVID-19 at delivery on maternal mortality or infant adverse birth outcomes in Botswana during the Omicron era

• Jaspreet Banga ,

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

  * E-mail: jbanga@bidmc.harvard.edu

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1479-3721

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• Maya Jackson-Gibson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Modiegi Diseko,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Botswana Harvard Health Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana

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• Ellen C. Caniglia,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Gloria Mayondi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Botswana Harvard Health Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana

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• Judith Mabuta,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Botswana Harvard Health Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana

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• Rebecca Luckett,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Botswana Harvard Health Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Sikhulile Moyo,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Botswana Harvard Health Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3821-4592

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• Pamela Smith-Lawrence,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ministry of Health and Wellness, Gaborone, Botswana

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• Mosepele Mosepele,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Botswana Harvard Health Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana

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• Shahin Lockman,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Botswana Harvard Health Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Joseph Makhema,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Botswana Harvard Health Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Rebecca Zash,

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

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Botswana Harvard Health Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana

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• Roger Shapiro

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Botswana Harvard Health Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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