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Topic: Public Health Policy and Practice
April 1, 2021
COVID-19 Case Surveillance: Trends in Person-Level Case Data Completeness, United States, April 5-September 30, 2020
National COVID-19 case surveillance data received by the CDC from April to September 2020 represented only 73% (~5 of 6.9 million) of the absolute number of cases and 72% of the absolute number of deaths (~142,000 of 198,000), as of November 2020. Completeness of case surveillance records was highest for age and sex (>98%), but…
March 31, 2021
Factors Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Positivity in 20 Homeless Shelters in Toronto, Canada, from April to July 2020: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study
Among 872 residents of homeless shelters in Toronto, Canada across 20 shelter locations, 504 unique individuals had a SARS-CoV-2 tests performed in outbreak settings (April 1 to July 31, 2020), of which 69 (14%) were positive. There was no association between SARS-CoV-2 positivity and medical history or symptoms. Those who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 were…
March 30, 2021
People Perceive Themselves to Adhere More Strictly to COVID-19 Guidelines than Others
Participants reported that their own adherence to COVID-19 guidelines was better than both their friends and the average citizen in an online survey from the UK, US, Germany, and Sweden (n=1,102) in April 2020. Participants reported higher self-compliance to guidelines such as handwashing, physical distancing, staying at home, and self-quarantining when sick. Though participants rated…
March 29, 2021
Years of Potential Life Lost Secondary to COVID-19: Cook County, Illinois
Among residents of Cook County, Illinois during the COVID-19 pandemic, the years of potential life lost (YPLL) was 4.8 times greater in the most affected racial/ethnic group (YPLL: 2289/100,000 population among Hispanic individuals) than in the least affected group (YPLL: 480/100,000 population among Asian individuals). 8,283 Cook County residents died from COVID-19 between March and…
Sudden Rise in COVID-19 Case Fatality among Young and Middle-Aged Adults in the South of Brazil after Identification of the Novel B.1.1.28.1 (P.1) SARS-CoV-2 Strain Analysis of Data from the State of Parana
[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] An analysis of 553,518 cases of SARS-CoV-2 (8,853 fatal) between September 1, 2020 and March 17, 2021 in the Brazilian state of Parana found higher COVID-19 case fatality rates (CFRs) among nearly all age groups that coincided with local identification of the SARS-CoV-2 P.1 variant. All age groups showed either a decline…
Characterizing the Disproportionate Burden of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern among Essential Workers in the Greater Toronto Area Canada
[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] In the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, SARS-CoV-2 cases defined as variant of concern (VOC) emerged faster in groups with the lowest income (growth rate 43.8%, 34.6%, and 21.6% by income tertile from lowest to highest), and the most essential work (growth rate 18.4%, 30.8%, and 50.8% by essential work tertile from lowest…
March 25, 2021
Continued Proportional Age Shift of Confirmed Positive COVID-19 Incidence over Time to Children and Young Adults: Washington State March—August 2020
The age distribution of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Washington State shifted from older age groups to young adults and children between March and August 2020, according to a longitudinal cohort analysis. From March to April, there was a 10% decline in cases among those age 60 years and older and a 20% increase among those…
Counties with High COVID-19 Incidence and Relatively Large Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations — United States, April 1–December 22, 2020
US county-level data show that during April 2020 11% of counties (n=3,142) reported high 2-week COVID-19 incidence (>100 new cases per 100,000 persons), which rose to 65% of counties in August, and 99% in December 2020. Counties whose percentages of racial and ethnic minority populations are larger than the respective national percentages were consistently overrepresented…
March 23, 2021
Association between Living with Children and Outcomes from Covid-19: OpenSAFELY Cohort Study of 12 Million Adults in England
For adults aged ≤65 years, living with children under the age of 18 was associated with a higher risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and having a COVID-19 related hospital admission during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in England. These associations were not present during the first wave. Risk of infection was 6% and 22%…
March 18, 2021
Neighborhood Disadvantage Measures and COVID-19 Cases in Boston, 2020
Census tracts in Boston with high incidence of COVID-19 between February and May 2020 had significant colocation of several neighborhood-level factors and the top quintile of cases: percentage of population that was Hispanic, non-Hispanic Black, without health insurance, receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, and living in poverty. They observed a 25% higher incidence of…
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