{"id":8068,"date":"2020-07-09T08:57:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T15:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8068"},"modified":"2021-03-31T08:57:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T15:57:54","slug":"rapid-emergence-of-sars-cov-2-in-the-greater-new-york-metropolitan-area-geolocation-demographics-positivity-rates-and-hospitalization-for-46793-persons-tested-by-northwell-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/09\/rapid-emergence-of-sars-cov-2-in-the-greater-new-york-metropolitan-area-geolocation-demographics-positivity-rates-and-hospitalization-for-46793-persons-tested-by-northwell-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in the Greater New York Metropolitan Area: Geolocation, Demographics, Positivity Rates, and Hospitalization for 46,793 Persons Tested by Northwell Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Northwell Health Laboratories\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">tested 46,793 persons<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in the greater New York metropolitan area\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for SARS-CoV-2 from March 4 through April 10<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">showing that<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2 incidence emerged rapidly and almost simultaneously across a broad demographic population in the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">region<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0finding that<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">57%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(n=26,735)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of people\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The t<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">otal hospitalization rate was 3<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% of positive persons<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(n=8,174)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">There was a broad range (greater than 10-fold) in the cumulative number of positive cases across individual zip codes following documented first case incidents. Test positivity was greater for persons living in zip codes with lower annual household income.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Reichberg et al. (July<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a08,<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a02020). Rapid Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in the Greater New York Metropolitan Area: Geolocation, Demographics, Positivity Rates, and Hospitalization for 46,793 Persons Tested by Northwell Health. Clinical Infectious Diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa922\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa922<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northwell Health Laboratories\u00a0tested 46,793 persons\u00a0in the greater New York metropolitan area\u00a0for SARS-CoV-2 from March 4 through April 10,\u00a0showing that\u00a0SARS-CoV-2 incidence emerged rapidly and almost simultaneously across a broad demographic population in the\u00a0region,\u00a0and\u00a0finding that\u00a057%\u00a0(n=26,735)\u00a0of people\u00a0tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.\u00a0The total hospitalization rate was 31% of positive persons\u00a0(n=8,174).\u00a0There was a broad range (greater than 10-fold) in the cumulative&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/09\/rapid-emergence-of-sars-cov-2-in-the-greater-new-york-metropolitan-area-geolocation-demographics-positivity-rates-and-hospitalization-for-46793-persons-tested-by-northwell-health\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-8068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8069,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068\/revisions\/8069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8068"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}