Volume 30, Number 6—June 2024
Research
Estimates of SARS-CoV-2 Hospitalization and Fatality Rates in the Prevaccination Period, United States
Isabel Griffin
, Jessica King1, B. Casey Lyons1, Alyson L. Singleton1, Xidong Deng, Beau B. Bruce, and Patricia M. Griffin
, Jessica King1, B. Casey Lyons1, Alyson L. Singleton1, Xidong Deng, Beau B. Bruce, and Patricia M. Griffin
Table 3
Case-hospitalization rates by age group and sex of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infections that met inclusion criteria for case hospitalization rate analysis, United States, 2020*
| Age group, y | Case-hospitalization rate including cases for which hospitalization status was not known, counted as not hospitalized, % |
Case-hospitalization rate among cases for which hospitalization status was known, % |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male sex | Female sex | Male sex | Female sex | ||
| <1 | 5.2 | 4.9 | 6.9 | 6.4 | |
| 1–4 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 1.4 | |
| 5–14 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.8 | |
| 15–24 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.5 | |
| 25–34 | 1.6 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 3.0 | |
| 35–44 | 3.0 | 2.6 | 4.2 | 3.6 | |
| 45–54 | 5.3 | 4.1 | 7.5 | 5.6 | |
| 55–64 | 9.4 | 7.1 | 13.2 | 9.9 | |
| 65–74 | 18.5 | 14.3 | 24.9 | 19.3 | |
| 75–84 | 30.1 | 22.5 | 39.7 | 30.8 | |
| >85 | 35.4 | 21.4 | 47.8 | 31.7 | |
| Missing† | 1.4 | 1.6 | 2.5 | 2.4 | |
*Data from 21 jurisdictions that met the study inclusion criteria, CDC line level surveillance dataset, accessed March 17, 2021, based on responses to the CDC 2019 Novel Coronavirus Case Report Form during May 1–December 1, 2020. Reports in which no response was provided about hospitalization were excluded from the rate calculation. †Missing indicates that the field was left blank.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
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