TABLE 5.
Contingency Table for Traditional Case-control and Test-negative Design Studies With Differential Healthcare-seeking Among the Vaccinated and Unvaccinated
Exposure | Outcome | ||
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Test-positive Case (Symptomatic, Healthcare Sought) | Community Control (Healthcare Not Sought) | Test-negative Control (Symptomatic, Healthcare Sought) | |
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Contents of the table are probabilities of the various listed outcomes, accounting for vaccinated or unvaccinated status. Parameters: , proportion of the population vaccinated; a, prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection; d, risk of COVID-19 among those with SARS-CoV-2 infection; k, risk of symptoms due to causes other than SARS-CoV-2 infection;
, relative risk of SARS-CoV-2, given vaccination;
, relative risk of COVID-19, among those with SARS-CoV-2 infection, given vaccination;
, probability of testing for symptomatic vaccinated individuals;
, probability of testing for symptomatic unvaccinated individuals (Table 1).