Demographic and clinical correlates of acute and convalescent SARS-CoV-2 infection among patients of a U.S. emergency department

• Published in: The American journal of emergency medicine Vol. 48; pp. 261 - 268
• Main Authors: Laeyendecker, Oliver, Hsieh, Yu-Hsiang, Rothman, Richard E., Dashler, Gaby, Kickler, Thomas, Fernandez, Reinaldo E., Clarke, William, Patel, Eshan U., Tobian, Aaron A.R., Kelen, Gabor D., Quinn, Thomas C., Schmidt, Haley A., Miller, Jernelle, Keruly, Morgan, Klock, Ethan, Kirby, Charles S., Baker, Owen R., Wang, Richard, Lake, Isabel V., Youbi, Mehdi, Reineck, Sarah, Khan, Momina, Knaub, Ross, Ricketts, Erin, Eby, Yolanda J., Anderson, Danna, Hurley, Jennifer
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.10.2021; Elsevier Limited; Published by Elsevier Inc
• Subjects: Acute Disease; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Algorithms; Antibodies; Asymptomatic; Black or African American; Clinical correlates; Convalescence; Coronaviruses; Cough; COVID-19; COVID-19 - epidemiology; COVID-19 - ethnology; COVID-19 - physiopathology; COVID-19 Nucleic Acid Testing; COVID-19 Serological Testing; Datasets; Demographic correlates; Emergency; Emergency department; Emergency medical care; Emergency Service, Hospital; Epidemics; Estimates; Ethnicity; Female; Fever; Hispanic Americans; Hispanic or Latino - statistics & numerical data; Humans; Hypoxia - physiopathology; Infections; Infectious diseases; Laboratories; Male; Middle Aged; Minority & ethnic groups; Olfaction; Pandemics; Patients; Prevalence; Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibody; Public health; SARS-CoV-2; SARS-CoV-2 infection; Seroepidemiologic Studies; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Surveillance; United States - epidemiology; Variables; Vital signs; White People; Young Adult; United States; United States > US; Baltimore Maryland; SARS-CoV-2 infection; Emergency department; Clinical correlates; Surveillance; Demographic correlates; Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibody

Emergency Departments (EDs) have served as critical surveillance sites for infectious diseases. We sought to determine the prevalence and temporal trends of acute (by PCR) and convalescent (by antibody [Ab]) SARS-CoV-2 infection during the earliest phase of the pandemic among patients in an urban ED...