Population-Based Estimates of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)-like Illness, COVID-19 Illness, and Rates of Case Ascertainment, Hospitalizations, and Deaths-Noninstitutionalized New York City Residents, March-April 2020

Karen A Alroy; Aldo Crossa; Christine Dominianni; Jessica Sell; Katherine Bartley; Michael Sanderson; Steven Fernandez; Amber Levanon Seligson; Sungwoo Lim; Shu Meir Wang; Sarah E Dumas; Sharon E Perlman; Kevin Konty; Donald R Olson; L Hannah Gould; Sharon K Greene

doi:10.1093/cid/ciab038

Population-Based Estimates of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)-like Illness, COVID-19 Illness, and Rates of Case Ascertainment, Hospitalizations, and Deaths-Noninstitutionalized New York City Residents, March-April 2020

Clin Infect Dis. 2021 Nov 2;73(9):1707-1710. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciab038.

Authors

Karen A Alroy^{1

2}, Aldo Crossa², Christine Dominianni², Jessica Sell², Katherine Bartley², Michael Sanderson², Steven Fernandez², Amber Levanon Seligson², Sungwoo Lim², Shu Meir Wang², Sarah E Dumas², Sharon E Perlman², Kevin Konty², Donald R Olson², L Hannah Gould², Sharon K Greene²

Affiliations

¹ Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and COVID-19 Response State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support Task Force, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
² New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Long Island City, New York, USA.

Abstract

Using a population-based, representative telephone survey, ~930 000 New York City residents had COVID-19 illness beginning 20 March-30 April 2020, a period with limited testing. For every 1000 persons estimated with COVID-19 illness, 141.8 were tested and reported as cases, 36.8 were hospitalized, and 12.8 died, varying by demographic characteristics.

Keywords: COVID-19; New York City; burden; mortality; population-based survey.

Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2021.

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Hospitalization
Humans
New York City / epidemiology
SARS-CoV-2