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“Syndrome-negative” participants were persons hospitalized without signs or symptoms consistent with acute COVID-19 and who tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 by molecular testing. They were included as a secondary control group because of the theoretical risk of case misclassification in test-negative controls.
