Outbreak caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in the psychiatric ward of a general hospital in Brazil.
Tazio VanniMoema Silva MenezesLetícia Olivier SudbrackFabiana FutiwakiLinda Stéphany BezerraSergio Cabral FilhoEdinan Oliveira NetoPaulo Giovanni Pinheiro CortezFabiano José Queiroz CostaLucas Luiz VieiraMariana Matos RollWildo Navegantes de AraújoMaria AlmironAndré Machado de SiqueiraLiliana Moscoso RibeiroJulival Fagundes RibeiroPublished in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (2022)
The findings highlight the potential harm that highly transmissible variants may generate among hospitalized populations, particularly those with comorbidities.