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Volume 29, Number 5—May 2023
Research

SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence Compared with Confirmed COVID-19 Cases among Children, Colorado, USA, May–July 2021

Shannon C. O’BrienComments to Author , Lyndsey D. Cole, Bernadette A. Albanese, Allison Mahon, Vijaya Knight, Nathan Williams, Rachel Severson, Alexis Burakoff, Nisha B. Alden, and Samuel R. Dominguez
Author affiliations: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, Colorado, USA (S.C. O’Brien, N. Williams, R. Severson, A. Burakoff, N.B. Alden); Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA (L.D. Cole, A. Mahon, V. Knight, S.R. Dominguez); Tri-County Health Department, Greenwood Village, Colorado, USA (B.A. Albanese)

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Table 1

Descriptive characteristics of children included in seroprevalence and case ascertainment analyses, Colorado, USA, May 12–July 13, 2021*

Characteristic No. (%) Median age (IQR)
Total population 829 9 y (3–14)
Female sex 422 (50.9) NA
Male sex
 405 (48.9)
 NA
Racial/ethnic group
Non-Hispanic White 290 (35.0) 8 (3.8–12)
Hispanic all races 287 (34.6) 10 (4–14)
Non-Hispanic Black 106 (12.8) 10.5 (3–14)
Non-Hispanic other† 99 (11.9) 8 (3–12)
Unknown‡
 47 (5.7)
 7 (2–13)
Age group, y
1–4 254 (30.6) NA
5–11 297 (35.8) NA
12–17 278 (33.5) NA

*IQR, interquartile range; NA, not applicable. †Includes persons self-reported as not Hispanic or Latino and Asian, American Indian or Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, >1 race, or other race. ‡Includes persons for whom race and ethnicity data were not reported.

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1Preliminary results from this study were presented at the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Conference; Louisville, Kentucky, USA; June 19–23, 2022.

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