Fig. 3From: Conceptual causal framework to assess the effect of SARS-CoV-2 variants on COVID-19 disease severity among hospitalized patientsConceptual framework to assess the causal relationship between SARS-CoV-2 variants and COVID-19 disease severity among hospitalized patients presented in a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) in the scenario of selection bias. CONFOUNDERS = all other confounders as listed in the DAG in Fig. 1. E = error term. U = unmeasured confoundersBack to article page