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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Oct 3.
Published in final edited form as: BMJ Public Health. 2024 Jun 3;2(1):e000770. doi: 10.1136/bmjph-2023-000770

Table 1:

Characteristics of included people in N3C cohort, December 10, 2020 - June 07, 2022

Cohort 1 Cohort 1∣ Cohort 2 Cohort 1∣ Cohort 2 Cohort 2
Non-vaccinated pregnant people (n=231,662) Pregnant people with initial vaccination during pregnancy (n=34,907) Pregnant people with initial vaccination before pregnancy (n=34,538) Non-pregnant vaccinated females aged 15 - 55 years old (n= 864,892)
Age (mean (IQR)) 30.2 (25, 33.8) 31.9 (28.0, 36.1) 32.2 (28.2, 35.9) 37.1 (28.1, 47.2)
BMI
BMI in kg/m2, median (IQR) 27.5 (23.3, 33.5) 27.4 (23.3, 33.2) 27.5 (23.4, 33.2) 29.4 (24.3, 36.0)
Missing 166,165 (69.92%) 22,776 (65.25%) 18,986 (54.97%) 551,220 (63.7%)
Race/ethnicity
White/non-Latinx 118,663 (51.22%) 18,731 (53.66%) 20,545 (59.49%) 514,957 (59.54%)
Black/non-Latinx 42,393 (18.30%) 4,574 (13.10%) 3,877 (11.23%) 120,639 (13.95%)
Any race/Latinx 38,382 (16.57%) 7,009 (20.08%) 5,699 (16.50%) 125,068 (14.46%)
Asian American 7,880 (3.40%) 1,850 (5.30%) 1,770 (5.12%) 30,391 (3.51%)
Other 3,376 (1.46%) 676 (1.94%) 578 (1.67%) 20,016 (2.31%)
Missing 20,968 (9.05%) 2,067 (5.92%) 2,069 (5.99%) 53,821 (6.22%)
Region
Midwest 32,413 (13.99%) 2,914 (8.35%) 2,736 (7.92%) 63,146 (7.30%)
South 34,333 (14.82%) 8,284 (23.73%) 8,071 (23.37%) 159,907 (18.49%)
West 24,321 (10.50%) 3,951 (11.32%) 5,389 (15.60%) 102,324 (11.83%)
Northeast 21,006 (9.07%) 2,620 (7.51%) 2,125 (6.15%) 52,118 (6.03%)
Missing 119,589 (51.62%) 17,138 (49.10%) 16,217 (46.95%) 487,397 (56.35%)
Comorbidities
Asthma 30,038 (12.97%) 4,719 (13.52%) 4,781 (13.84%) 112,973 (13.06%)
COPD 933 (0.40%) 144 (0.41%) 187 (0.54%) 12,467 (1.44%)
Chronic kidney disease 1,962 (0.85%) 353 (1.01%) 368 (1.07%) 17,242 (1.99%)
Hypertension 2,789 (1.20%) 424 (1.21%) 431 (1.25%) 10,338 (1.20%)
Cardiovascular disease 24,475 (10.56%) 3,362 (9.63%) 3,201 (9.27%) 89,477 (10.35%)
Type I diabetes 2,632 (1.14%) 427 (1.22%) 394 (1.14%) 8,743 (1.01%)
Type II diabetes 9,780 (4.22%) 1,749 (5.01%) 1,698 (4.92%) 73,814 (8.53%)
CCI Index
CCI=0 43,452 (18.76%) 6,785 (19.44%) 6,895 (19.96%) 165,799 (19.17%)
CCI=1 9,371 (4.05%) 1,600 (4.58%) 1,820 (5.27%) 63,926 (7.39%)
CCI=2 169,671 (73.24%) 25,068 (71.81%) 24,391 (70.62%) 571,002 (66.02%)
CCI=3+ 9,168 (3.96%) 1,454 (4.17%) 1,432 (4.15%) 64,165 (7.42%)
First vaccine manufacturer
Pfizer/BioNTech 25,540 (73.17%) 23,547 (68.18%) 576,921 (66.70%)
Moderna 8,026 (22.99%) 9,130 (26.43%) 239,928 (27.74%)
Janssen 1,195 (3.42%) 1,773 (5.13%) 46,919 (5.42%)
Other 146 (0.42%) 88 (0.25%) 1,124 (0.13%)
Insurance type
Private insurance 32,791 (14.15%) 6,726 (19.27%) 7,819 (22.64%) 160,659 (18.58%)
Medicare/Medicaid 27,857 (12.02%) 3,843 (11.01%) 3,596 (63.24%) 83,347 (9.64%)
Missing 168,582 (72.77%) 23,293 (66.73%) 21,841 (3.71%) 596,701 (68.99%)
Other 2,432 (1.05%) 1,045 (2.99%) 1,282 (7.92%) 24,185 (2.80%)
Prior COVID-19 positive 4,747 (2.05%) 2,097 (6.01%) 1,512 (4.38%) 64,511 (7.46%)
First vaccination visit type
Outpatient visit 17,373 (49.77%) 15,431 (44.68%) 345,383 (39.93%)
Emergency visit 131 (0.38%) 97 (0.28%) 1,729 (0.20%)
Other 153 (0.44%) 265 (0.77%) 6,406 (0.74%)
Vaccination status
Full initial vaccination 28,537 (81.75%) 31,530 (91.29%) 765,929 (88.56%)
Partial initial vaccination 6,370 (18.25%) 3,008 (8.71%) 98,963 (11.44%)
Booster vaccination (with full initial vaccination) 8,415 (24.11%) 14,730 (42.6%) 460,967 (53.30%)
Outcomes
COVID-19 infection with hospitalization 3,868 (1.67%) 352 (1.01%) 185 (0.54%) 3,717 (0.43%)
Breakthrough/incident COVID-19 infection 39,313 (16.97%) 4,323 (12.40%) 4,577 (13.30%) 159,106 (18.40%)
Ventilation and/or ECMO 162 (0.07%) <20 <20 118 (0.01%)
ICU 52 (0.02%) <20 <20 84 (0.01%)

Abbreviations: N3C=National COVID Cohort Collaborative; IQR= inter quantile range; CCI= Charlson Ccomorbidity Iindex; ER= emergency department; ECMO= extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; ICU= intensive care unit; COPD= Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Prior COVID-19 positive was defined as whether they have prior COVID-19 diagnosis before the first vaccination date in Cohort 1 or before December.10, 2020 for unvaccinated pregnant people in Cohort 2.

COVID-19 severity outcomes include any hospitalization, including for a delivery, within 14 days before or 45 days after COVID-19 diagnosis; COVID-19-related hospitalization within 14 days before or 45 days after COVID-19 diagnosis but not within +/− 7 days of delivery date; ICU admission within 45 days after COVID-19 diagnosis; invasive ventilation or ECMO within 45 days after COVID-19 diagnosis.

Numbers in a category with number < 20 must be obfuscated to comply with the small number reporting rule for N3C.