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Volume 31, Number 8—August 2025

Dispatch

COVID-19 Predeparture Test Results and Vaccination Coverage among US-Bound Refugees, 2020–2022

Ashley S. Judge, Tarissa Mitchell, Alexander Klosovsky, Michelle Weinberg, and Christina R. PharesComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA (A.S. Judge); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (A.S. Judge, T. Mitchell, M. Weinberg, C.R. Phares); International Organization for Migration, Washington, DC, USA (A. Klosovsky)

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Predeparture COVID-19 test positivity among refugees by week of arrival in the United States (November 24, 2020–June 11, 2022) in study of test results and vaccination coverage among US-bound refugees, 2020–2022. Among refugees, weeks with <20 persons tested were suppressed. White bars indicate number of persons tested; dotted and solid lines indicate percentage positivity. Data for US population COVID-19 test positivity from National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (https://data.cdc.gov/Laboratory-Surveillance/Percent-Positivity-of-COVID-19-Nucleic-Acid-Amplif/gvsb-yw6g/about_data).

Figure 1. Predeparture COVID-19 test positivity among refugees by week of arrival in the United States (November 24, 2020–June 11, 2022) in study of test results and vaccination coverage among US-bound refugees, 2020–2022. Among refugees, weeks with <20 persons tested were suppressed. White bars indicate number of persons tested; dotted and solid lines indicate percentage positivity. Data for US population COVID-19 test positivity from National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (https://data.cdc.gov/Laboratory-Surveillance/Percent-Positivity-of-COVID-19-Nucleic-Acid-Amplif/gvsb-yw6g/about_data).

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