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Journal Article
Predictors of self-reported symptoms and testing for COVID-19 in Canada using a nationally representative survey
2020
Overview
Random population-based surveys to estimate prevalence of SARS-CoV2 infection causing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are useful to understand distributions and predictors of the infection. In April 2020, the first-ever nationally representative survey in Canada polled 4,240 adults age 18 years and older about self-reported COVID experience in March, early in the epidemic. We examined the levels and predictors of COVID symptoms, defined as fever plus difficulty breathing/shortness of breath, dry cough so severe that it disrupts sleep, and/or loss of sense of smell; and testing for SARS-CoV-2 by respondents and/or household members. About 8% of Canadians reported that they and/or one or more household members experienced COVID symptoms. Symptoms were more common in younger than in older adults, and among visible minorities. Overall, only 3% of respondents and/or household members reported testing for SARS-CoV-2. Being tested was associated with having COVID symptoms, Indigenous identity, and living in Quebec. Periodic nationally representative surveys of symptoms, as well as SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, are required in many countries to understand the pandemic and prepare for the future.
Publisher
Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subject
/ Adult
/ Adults
/ Aged
/ Clinical Laboratory Techniques
/ Coronavirus Infections - diagnosis
/ Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
/ Coronavirus Infections - virology
/ Cough
/ COVID-19
/ Female
/ Fever
/ Humans
/ Male
/ Medicine and Health Sciences
/ Pneumonia, Viral - diagnosis
/ Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
/ Research and Analysis Methods
/ Severe acute respiratory syndrome
/ Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
/ Sleep
/ Smell
/ Surveys
