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Waasila Jassat

Researcher at National Health Laboratory Service

Publications -  74
Citations -  1689

Waasila Jassat is an academic researcher from National Health Laboratory Service. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 17 publications receiving 120 citations. Previous affiliations of Waasila Jassat include University of the Western Cape.

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Population Immunity and Covid-19 Severity with Omicron Variant in South Africa.

TL;DR: Widespread underlying SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity was observed in Gauteng before the omicron-dominant wave of Covid-19, and Epidemiologic data showed a decoupling of hospitalizations and deaths from infections while Omicron was circulating.
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Estimated Global Proportions of Individuals With Persistent Fatigue, Cognitive, and Respiratory Symptom Clusters Following Symptomatic COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021.

Sarah Wulf Hanson, +126 more
- 10 Oct 2022 - 
TL;DR: This study presents estimates of the proportion of individuals with at least 1 of the 3 self-reported Long COVID symptom clusters in 2020 and 2021, which were more common in women aged 20 years or older by sex and for both sexes of nonhospitalized individuals younger than 20 years of age.
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Difference in mortality among individuals admitted to hospital with COVID-19 during the first and second waves in South Africa: a cohort study.

Waasila Jassat, +1546 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed data from the DATCOV national active surveillance system for COVID-19 admissions to hospital from March 5, 2020, to March 27, 2021.
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Estimating disease severity of Omicron and Delta SARS-CoV-2 infections

TL;DR: The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 has been reported to cause milder disease in adults but lead to increased hospital admissions in children, and how should differences be interpreted.