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Volume 30, Number 6—June 2024
Research

Estimates of SARS-CoV-2 Hospitalization and Fatality Rates in the Prevaccination Period, United States

Isabel GriffinComments to Author , Jessica King1, B. Casey Lyons1, Alyson L. Singleton1, Xidong Deng, Beau B. Bruce, and Patricia M. Griffin
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (I. Griffin, J. King, B.C. Lyons, X. Deng, B.B. Bruce, P.M. Griffin); Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA (A.L. Singleton)

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Table 4

Race- and ethnicity-specific unadjusted and age-adjusted case hospitalization and fatality rates of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infections that met inclusion criteria for fatality rate analysis, United States, 2020*

Race and ethnicity† Case hospitalization rate including cases for which hospitalization status was not known, counted as not hospitalized
 Case fatality rate including cases for which
death status was not known, counted as live
Unadjusted Age-adjusted‡ Unadjusted Age-adjusted‡
AI or AN, NH 7.4 10.1 2.0 3.4
Asian or PI, NH 7.0 11.2 3.0 4.4
AA or Black, NH 11.4 14.0 2.8 4.0
Hispanic 4.7 9.0 0.8 2.5
Other or multiple races, NH 7.8 9.8 1.5 2.1
White, NH 6.5 6.8 2.7 1.5
Unknown 3.4 4.2 1.0 2.6

*Data from 21 (hospitalization) and 22 (fatality) 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 death or hospitalization were excluded from the rate calculation. AA, African American; AI, American Indian; AN, Alaska Native; ICU, intensive care unit; NH, not Hispanic or Latino; PI, Pacific Islander.. †Other or multiple races category includes not Hispanic or Latino persons whose race was reported as other or for whom >1 race was reported and persons whose record had both a racial designation and “racial information unknown” selected. The unknown category includes cases who have a known ethnicity of NH, but either unknown or missing race; have a known race but either unknown or missing ethnicity; or have both unknown or missing race and unknown or missing ethnicity. ‡Hospitalization and fatality rates by race and ethnicity adjusted to the age distribution of the White, NH, population based on 2019 US Census population.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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