TABLE 1—
Demographics of IWantTheKit Users Requesting CT/NG and HIV Testing Kits: Baltimore, MD, September 2019–March 2020 and April 2020–October 2020
| Characteristic | Group A: All Users (n = 1670) | Group B: Users Ordering CT/NG Kits Onlya (n = 627) | Group C: Users Ordering CT/NG and HIV Testing Kitsa (n = 1043) | |||
| Pre-COVID-19b (n = 195), No. (%) | During COVID-19b (n = 1475), No. (%) | Pre-COVID-19 (n = 125), No. (%) | During COVID-19c (n = 502), No. (%) | Pre-COVID-19d (n = 70), No. (%) | During COVID-19 (n = 973), No. (%) | |
| Age, y | ||||||
| ≤ 17 | 0 | 10 (0.7) | 0 | 10 (2.0) | 0 | 0 |
| 18–24 | 66 (33.8) | 440 (29.8) | 35 (28.0) | 151 (30.1) | 31 (44.3) | 289 (29.7) |
| 25–34 | 91 (46.7) | 724 (49.1) | 62 (49.6) | 237 (47.2) | 29 (41.4) | 487 (50.1) |
| 35–44 | 29 (14.9) | 186 (12.6) | 22 (17.6) | 61 (12.2) | 7 (10.0) | 125 (12.8) |
| 45–54 | 9 (4.6) | 66 (4.5) | 6 (4.8) | 23 (4.6) | 3 (4.3) | 43 (4.4) |
| ≥ 55 | 0 | 49 (3.3) | 0 | 20 (4.0) | 0 | 29 (3.0) |
| Pe | .039 | .051 | .11 | |||
| Gender identity | ||||||
| Female | 108 (55.4) | 625 (42.4) | 60 (48.0) | 199 (39.6) | 48 (68.6) | 426 (43.8) |
| Male | 85 (43.6) | 815 (55.3) | 63 (50.4) | 293 (58.4) | 22 (31.4) | 522 (53.6) |
| Other | 2 (1.0) | 35 (2.4) | 2 (1.6) | 10 (2.0) | 0 | 25 (2.6) |
| P | .002 | .26 | < .001 | |||
| Race | ||||||
| Alaska Native/Native American | 0 | 9 (0.6) | 0 | 1 (0.2) | 0 | 8 (0.8) |
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 17 (8.7) | 52 (3.5) | 10 (8.0) | 13 (2.6) | 7 (10.0) | 39 (4.0) |
| Black | 72 (36.9) | 1036 (70.2) | 47 (37.6) | 356 (70.9) | 25 (35.7) | 680 (69.9) |
| Multiracial | 20 (10.3) | 91 (6.2) | 13 (10.4) | 26 (5.2) | 7 (10.0) | 65 (6.7) |
| White | 78 (40.0) | 232 (15.7) | 50 (40.0) | 85 (16.9) | 28 (40.0) | 147 (15.1) |
| Unknown | 8 (4.1) | 55 (3.7) | 5 (4.0) | 21 (4.2) | 3 (4.3) | 34 (3.5) |
| P | < .001 | < .001 | < .001 | |||
Note. CT = Chlamydia trachomatis; NG = Neisseria gonorrhoeae. We performed the Fisher exact test for all comparisons. We performed all statistical analyses using Stata/IC version 15 (StataCorp, College Station, TX).
Users could order swabs only, HIV test only, or a combination.
Before COVID-19 = September 2019–March 2020; during COVID-19 = April–October 2020.
One user ordering sexually transmitted infections kits only during COVID-19 had missing age and race information.
HIV test kits became available in January 2020, before COVID-19.
The category of ≤ 17 y in group C was not included in the comparison because of zero count.