Saifullah Shafiq
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Dermatological and COVID-19 studies
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
- T-cell and Retrovirus Studies
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
2021
National Institutes of Health
2021
16.8 million SARS-CoV-2 infections in the US went undiagnosed first 6 months of pandemic compared to 3.5 diagnosed infections.
ABSTRACT Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and delayed implementation of diagnostics have led to poorly defined viral prevalence rates. To address this, we analyzed seropositivity in US adults who not previously been diagnosed with COVID-19. Individuals characteristics that reflect the population ( n = 11,382) had COVID-19 were selected by quota sampling from 241,424 volunteers ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04334954 ). Enrolled participants provided medical, geographic, demographic, socioeconomic...