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. 2023 Jan 3;6(1):e2252684.
doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.52684.

Unreported SARS-CoV-2 Home Testing and Test Positivity

Soo Park  1 , Gregory M Marcus  2 , Jeffrey E Olgin  2 , Thomas Carton  3 , Rita Hamad  4   5 , Mark J Pletcher  1   6 ; COVID-19 Citizen Science Study Consortium
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Unreported SARS-CoV-2 Home Testing and Test Positivity

Soo Park et al. JAMA Netw Open. .
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Plain language summary

This cohort study examines time trends in officially reported SARS-CoV-2 case counts and unreported home test positivity.

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Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

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Figure.
Figure.. SARS-CoV-2 Testing, Test Type, and Test Positivity Trends Over Time
The solid lines represent total SARS-CoV-2 tests reported daily (with smoothed trend line) and percentage 7-day test positivity from July 1, 2021, to August 15, 2022, in the US, extracted from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center website. The dashed lines represent data on home testing from the COVID-19 Citizen Science Study.
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