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Published in final edited form as: Nature. 2021 Mar 15;593(7858):270–274. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03426-1

Extended Data Table 2 ∣.

Rates of death within 28 days of a positive test among study participants

Death rates SGTF
prevalence (%)
Missingness (%)
All Missing SGTF Non-SGTF
17,452 / 57,616,200 (3.03) 12,507 / 27,937,559 (4.48) 3,088 / 16,617,517 (1.86) 1,857 / 13,061,124 (1.42) 62% 72%
Sex
Female 9,244 / 30,944,020 (2.99) 7,053 / 15,398,004 (4.58) 1,361 / 8,619,534 (1.58) 830 / 6,926,482 (1.2) 62% 76%
Male 8,208 / 26,672,181 (3.08) 5,454 / 12,539,554 (4.35) 1,727 / 7,997,984 (2.16) 1,027 / 6,134,643 (1.67) 63% 66%
Age
1-34 71 / 25,680,074 (0.03) 29 / 12,326,846 (0.02) 25 / 7,508,250 (0.03) 17 / 5,844,978 (0.03) 60% 41%
35-54 712 / 19,864,316 (0.36) 341 / 9,403,924 (0.36) 261 / 5,943,218 (0.44) 110 / 4,517,174(0.24) 70% 48%
55-69 2,244 / 8,701,146 (2.58) 1,117 / 4,165,412 (2.68) 787 / 2,495,452 (3.15) 340 / 2,040,282 (1.67) 70% 50%
70-84 5,839 / 2,417,392 (24.15) 3,939 / 1,300,303 (30.29) 1,144 / 563,478 (20.3) 756 / 553,610 (13.66) 60% 67%
85 and older 8,586 / 953,274 (90.07) 7,081 / 741,074 (95.55) 871 / 107,120 (81.31) 634 / 105,080 (60.33) 58% 82%
Place of residence
Residential 6,790 / 54,144,918 (1.25) 3,114 / 25,493,353 (1.22) 2,363 / 16,050,245 (1.47) 1,313 / 12,601,320 (1.04) 64% 46%
Care/Nursing home 10,343 / 1,633,711 (63.31) 9,152 / 1,448,972 (63.16) 671 / 88,819 (75.55) 520 / 95,920 (54.21) 56% 88%
Other/Unknown 319 / 1,837,572 (1.74) 241 / 995,234 (2.42) 54 / 478,453 (1.13) 24 / 363,885 (0.66) 69% 76%
Ethnicity
White 15,403 / 42,509,581 (3.62) 11,306 / 20,333,667 (5.56) 2,510 / 12,178,060 (2.06) 1,587 / 9,997,854 (1.59) 61% 73%
Asian 1,234 / 7,881,667 (1.57) 648 / 3,621,568 (1.79) 388 / 2,346,561 (1.65) 198 / 1,913,538 (1.03) 66% 53%
Black 334 / 2,704,512 (1.23) 205 / 1,532,482 (1.34) 101 / 796,623 (1.27) 28 / 375,406 (0.75) 78% 61%
Other/Mixed/Unknown 481 / 4,520,440 (1.06) 348 / 2,449,842 (1.42) 89 / 1,296,272 (0.69) 44 / 774,326 (0.57) 67% 72%
IMD decile
1-2 (most deprived) 3,407 / 12,934,018 (2.63) 1,972 / 5,512,666 (3.58) 816 / 3,711,599 (2.2) 619 / 3,709,752 (1.67) 57% 58%
3-4 3,656 / 13,332,300 (2.74) 2,541 / 6,699,684 (3.79) 726 / 3,821,830 (1.9) 389 / 2,810,787 (1.38) 65% 70%
5-6 3,642 / 11,555,099 (3.15) 2,801 / 5,923,094 (4.73) 549 / 3,307,366 (1.66) 292 / 2,324,639 (1.26) 65% 77%
7-8 3,475 / 10,477,056 (3.32) 2,671 / 5,208,213 (5.13) 522 / 2,997,440 (1.74) 282 / 2,271,402 (1.24) 65% 77%
9-10 3,272 / 9,317,728 (3.51) 2,522 / 4,593,902 (5.49) 475 / 2,779,282 (1.71) 275 / 1,944,544 (1.41) 63% 77%
NHS England region
East of England 2,513 / 7,214,404 (3.48) 2,163 / 4,623,842 (4.68) 272 / 1,976,732 (1.38) 78 / 613,831 (1.27) 78% 86%
London 1,875 / 13,363,072 (1.4) 1,439 / 7,990,202 (1.8) 359 / 3,999,013 (0.9) 77 / 1,373,858 (0.56) 82% 77%
Midlands 3,596 / 10,680,665 (3.37) 2,448 / 4,839,783 (5.06) 678 / 2,683,772 (2.53) 470 / 3,157,110 (1.49) 59% 68%
North East and Yorkshire 2,175 / 6,979,508 (3.12) 944 / 1,528,482 (6.18) 565 / 1,922,484 (2.94) 666 / 3,528,543 (1.89) 46% 43%
North West 1,869 / 6,745,667 (2.77) 910 / 1,439,165 (6.32) 554 / 2,393,090 (2.31) 405 / 2,913,412 (1.39) 58% 49%
South East 3,731 / 9,274,042 (4.02) 3,155 / 5,136,804 (6.14) 496 / 3,148,042 (1.58) 80 / 989,196 (0.81) 86% 85%
South West 1,693 / 3,358,841 (5.04) 1,448 / 2,379,282 (6.09) 164 / 494,384 (3.32) 81 / 485,175 (1.67) 67% 86%
Specimen date
1 Nov-21 Nov 2,143 / 9,726,040 (2.2) 1,405 / 3,317,578 (4.24) 29 / 371,689 (0.78) 709 / 6,036,774 (1.17) 4% 66%
22 Nov-12 Dec 1,994 / 6,631,448 (3.01) 1,452 / 2,409,916 (6.03) 141 / 1,254,200 (1.12) 401 / 2,967,330 (1.35) 26% 73%
13 Dec-2 Jan 4,250 / 18,432,794 (2.31) 3,112 / 9,900,846 (3.14) 777 / 5,993,916 (1.3) 361 / 2,538,032 (1.42) 68% 73%
3 Jan-23 Jan 7,621 / 19,281,830 (3.95) 5,641 / 10,464,988 (5.39) 1,638 / 7,409,298 (2.21) 342 / 1,407,543 (2.43) 83% 74%
24 Jan-14 Feb 1,444 / 3,544,088 (4.07) 897 / 1,844,230 (4.86) 503 / 1,588,412 (3.17) 44 / 111,445 (3.95) 92% 62%

Total number of deaths, number of days of follow-up and deaths per 10,000 days of follow-up are reported for: all deaths, deaths with Missing SGTF status, deaths with known SGTF and deaths with known Non-SGTF. SGTF prevalence among deaths with non-missing SGTF status (%) and missingness in SGTF status among deaths are also reported.