Tracking COVID-19 Infections Using Survey Data on Rapid At-Home Tests.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Identifying and tracking new infections during an emerging pandemic is crucial to design and deploy interventions to protect populations and mitigate the pandemic's effects, yet it remains a challenging task.

Objective

To characterize the ability of nonprobability online surveys to longitudinally estimate the number of COVID-19 infections in the population both in the presence and absence of institutionalized testing.

Design, setting, and participants

Internet-based online nonprobability surveys were conducted among residents aged 18 years or older across 50 US states and the District of Columbia, using the PureSpectrum survey vendor, approximately every 6 weeks between June 1, 2020, and January 31, 2023, for a multiuniversity consortium-the COVID States Pr

SUBMITTER: Santillana M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11443354 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature