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Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2021 Mar 1;40(3):175–181. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000003024

TABLE 1.

Characteristics of Children ≤ 18 Years Tested for SARS-CoV-2

Characteristic	Test Results
Characteristic	Positive, n = 734	Negative, n = 22,403	% Positive Tests, 3.2%	P
Median age, yr (IQR)	12.0 (5.0–16.0)	10.0 (4.0–16.0)		<0.001
Gender (% male)	359 (48.9%)	11,638 (51.9%)		0.10
Race/ethnicity				<0.001
Hispanic	312 (42.5%)	5161 (23.0%)	5.7%
Non-Hispanic Black	142 (19.3%)	2959 (13.2%)	4.6%
Non-Hispanic White	191 (26.0%)	11,304 (50.5%)	1.7%
Non-Hispanic other	50 (6.8%)	1520 (6.8%)	3.2%
Missing	39 (5.3%)	1459 (6.5%)	2.6%
Testing interval				<0.001
March 1 to April 11	126 (17.2%)	797 (3.6%)	13.7%
April 12 to May 23	253 (34.5%)	2150 (9.6%)	10.5%
May 24 to July 4	78 (10.6%)	3819 (17.0%)	2.0%
July 5 to August 15	153 (20.8%)	7238 (32.3%)	2.1%
August 16 to September 26	124 (16.9%)	8399 (37.5%)	1.4%
Patient location				<0.001
Ambulatory	688 (93.7%)	19,714 (88.0%)	3.4%
Inpatient	46 (6.3%)	2689 (12.0%)	1.7%

IQR indicates interquartile range.