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Trends in COVID-19 Testing and Positivity Rates from a Mobile Testing Program in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area
- Source :
- Journal of Community Health
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.
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Abstract
- The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to be a global concern, with over 150 million cases worldwide. Arizona, which was recently a hotspot for COVID-19, has over 860 thousand cases. Reviewing the COVID-19 trends over time is crucial in understanding the pandemic and evaluating the impact of mitigation techniques. This current study analyzes the trends in COVID-19 testing and positivity rates from a mobile testing program in the Phoenix metropolitan area between December 2020 and April 2021. Of the 32,234 tests performed there was a total of 3654 COVID positive cases, yielding an overall positivity rate of 11.3%. COVID-19 positivity rates were significantly higher in December (12.9%) and January (12.7%), compared to February (7.5%), March (4.9%), and April (6.7%), p
- Subjects :
- 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
medicine.medical_specialty
COVID-19 Vaccines
Health (social science)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Mobile testing
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Phoenix
03 medical and health sciences
COVID-19 Testing
0302 clinical medicine
Pandemic
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Pandemics
Original Paper
030505 public health
biology
SARS-CoV-2
business.industry
Public health
Arizona
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
COVID-19
biology.organism_classification
Metropolitan area
0305 other medical science
business
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15733610 and 00945145
- Volume :
- 46
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Community Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9f7216a082a30d98f432f9041b8d33ab