A Retrospective Cohort Study of COVID-19 among Children in Fulton County, Georgia, March 2020 - June 2021
Abstract Objective To describe case rates, testing rates, and percent positivity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among children aged 0-18 years by school-age grouping.Design We abstracted data from Georgia’s State Electronic Notifiable Disease Surveillance System on all 10,437 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases among children aged 0-18 years during March 30, 2020 to June 6, 2021. We examined case rates, testing rates, and percent positivity by school-aged groupings, namely: preschool (0-4 years), elementary school (5-10 years), middle school (11-13 years), and high school (14-18 years) and compared these data among school aged children to those in the adult population (19 years and older).Setting Fulton County, Georgia.Main outcome measures COVID-19 case rates, testing rates, and percent positivity.Results Over time, the proportion of pediatric cases rose substantially from 1.1% (April 2020) to 21.6% (April 2021) of all cases in the county. Age-specific case rates and test rates were consistently highest among high-school aged children. Test positivity was similar across school-age groups, with periods of higher positivity among high-school aged children.Conclusions Low COVID-19 testing rates among children, especially early in the pandemic, likely underestimate the true burden of disease in this age group. Despite children having lower measured incidence of COVID-19, we found when broader community incidence increased, incidence also increased among all pediatric age groups. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve, it remains critical to continue learning about the incidence and transmissibility of COVID-19 in children..
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2022 |
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bioRxiv.org - (2022) vom: 25. Mai Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2022 |
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Englisch |
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Barrera, Chloe M. [VerfasserIn] |
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| 520 | |a Abstract Objective To describe case rates, testing rates, and percent positivity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among children aged 0-18 years by school-age grouping.Design We abstracted data from Georgia’s State Electronic Notifiable Disease Surveillance System on all 10,437 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases among children aged 0-18 years during March 30, 2020 to June 6, 2021. We examined case rates, testing rates, and percent positivity by school-aged groupings, namely: preschool (0-4 years), elementary school (5-10 years), middle school (11-13 years), and high school (14-18 years) and compared these data among school aged children to those in the adult population (19 years and older).Setting Fulton County, Georgia.Main outcome measures COVID-19 case rates, testing rates, and percent positivity.Results Over time, the proportion of pediatric cases rose substantially from 1.1% (April 2020) to 21.6% (April 2021) of all cases in the county. Age-specific case rates and test rates were consistently highest among high-school aged children. Test positivity was similar across school-age groups, with periods of higher positivity among high-school aged children.Conclusions Low COVID-19 testing rates among children, especially early in the pandemic, likely underestimate the true burden of disease in this age group. Despite children having lower measured incidence of COVID-19, we found when broader community incidence increased, incidence also increased among all pediatric age groups. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve, it remains critical to continue learning about the incidence and transmissibility of COVID-19 in children. | ||
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