TABLE 1.

Demographics and positivity rate for QIAstat-Dx Respiratory Panel for all prospective and retrospective samples and by age group

Parameter	Prospective sample (n = 1,994)		Retrospective samplea (n = 310)
	No.	% of total	No.	% of total
Demographics and location
Male	924	46.3	158	50.8
Female	1,070	53.7	152	49.2
Outpatients	788	39.5	224	72.3
Hospitalized	686	34.4	68	21.9
Emergency	67	3.4	8	2.6
ICU	153	7.7	8	2.6
Other/unknown	300	15.0	2	0.6
Overall positivity and codetections
Negative samples	828	41.5	11	3.5
Positive samples	1,166	58.5	299	96.5
Single detections	800	40.1	222	71.6
Codetections	366	18.4	77	24.8
Positivity by age grouping
≤5 yr (n = 627)	481	24.1	137	44.2
6–21 yr (n = 239)	123	6.2	80	25.8
22–49 yr (n = 330)	174	8.7	48	15.5
50+ yr (n = 798)	388	19.5	34	11.5

^aAll retrospective samples were chosen from frozen archives based on initial standard-of-care testing and retested with the QIAstat-Dx RP and comparator.