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Volume 16, Number 11—November 2010
Dispatch

Estimates of the True Number of Cases of Pandemic (H1N1) 2009, Beijing, China

Xiaoli Wang, Peng Yang, Holly Seale, Yi Zhang, Wenbo Xu, Xinghuo Pang, Xiong He, and Quanyi WangComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing, People’s Republic of China (X. Wang, P. Yang, Y. Zhang, Y. Deng, X. Pang, X. He, Q. Wang); Capital Medical University School of Public Health and Family Medicine. Beijing (X. Wang, P. Yang, Y. Zhang, Y. Deng, X. Pang, X. He, Q. Want); University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (H. Seale)

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Table 2

Estimated numbers of persons infected with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 and infection rate, by age group, Beijing*

Age group, y Proportion of total no. persons infected, % Estimated no. cases, median (90% CI) Estimated rate, %, median (90% CI)
0–4 13.4 241,253 (195,910–307,571) 30.8 (25.0–39.2)
5–14 35.1 632,300 (513,459–806,111) 31.8 (25.8–40.6)
15–24 29.4 528,597 (429,247–673,902) 22.2 (18.0–28.3)
25–59 20.9 375,383 (304,829–478,571) 4.1 (3.3–5.2)
>60
 1.3
 22,865 (18,568–29,150)
 0.9 (0.7–1.1)
Total 100.0 1,800,399 (1,462,012–2,295,305) 10.6 (8.6–13.5)

*CI, confidence interval.

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