SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Surveillance

Purpose

The University of Rochester Medical Center, part of the CDC's New York State Emerging Infections Program (EIP), was awarded a $1.7 million grant to extend EIP surveillance to COVID-19 and conduct several additional related studies. The surveillance team, based out of the Center for Community Health & Prevention, collects extensive data on all COVID-19 hospitalized cases to better understand risk factors, underlying conditions, clinical course and treatment.

The collected data is reported weekly on COVID-NET, a laboratory- and population-based surveillance system, initiated and funded by the CDC. 

Reports

March 7 - November 18, Weekly Cumulative Data and Graph

March 7 - October 21, Weekly Cumulative Data and Graph

March 7 - October 7, Weekly Cumulative Data and Graph

March 7 - September 23, Weekly Cumulative Data and Graph

March 7 - September 9, Weekly Cumulative Data and Graph

March 7 - August 26, Weekly Cumulative Data and Graph

March 7 - August 12, Weekly Cumulative Data and Graph

Find earlier reports here.

COVID-19 among Healthcare Personnel

The EIP team is working with the CDC on gathering information from healthcare personnel who have been tested for COVID-19 to evaluate how well COVID-19 vaccines prevent laboratory-confirmed, symptomatic COVID-19 in healthcare workers in the “real world,” outside of a clinical trial. Learn more.

• Seshadri S, Concannon C, Woods JA, McCullough K and Dumyati G. "It's like Fighting a War with Rocks:" Nursing Home Healthcare Workers' Experiences During COVID-19." Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiol. August 2020, pp 1-7.doi:10.1017/ice.2020.393. [Epub ahead of print]

Publications

• Owusu D, Kim L, O'Halloran A, Whitaker M, Piasecki AM, Reingold A, Alden NB, Maslar A, Anderson EJ, Ryan PA, Kim S, Como-Sabetti K, Hancock EB, Muse A, Bennett NM, Billing LM, Sutton M, Talbot K, Ortega J, Brammer L, Fry AM, Hall AJ, Garg S; COVID-NET Surveillance Team. Characteristics of Adults aged 18-49 Years without Underlying Conditions Hospitalized with Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 in the United States, COVID-NET - March-August 2020. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Dec 3:ciaa1806. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1806. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33270136.

• Acosta AM, Mathis AL, Budnitz DS, Geller AI, Chai SJ, Alden NB, Meek J, Anderson EJ, Ryan P, Kim S, Como-Sabetti K, Torres S, Dufort E, Bennett NM, Billing LM, Sutton M, Keipp Talbot H, George A, Pham H, Hall AJ, Fry A, Garg S, Kim L. COVID-19 Investigational Treatments in Use Among Hospitalized Patients Identified Through the US Coronavirus Disease 2019-Associated Hospitalization Surveillance Network, March 1-June 30, 2020. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 Nov 9;7(11):ofaa528. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa528. PMID: 33274249; PMCID: PMC7686662.

• Kambhampati AK, O'Halloran, AC, Whitaker M, Felsen CB, Bennett NB, et al. COVID-19-Associated Hospitlizations Among Health Care Personnel -- COVID-NET, 13 States, March 1-May 31, 2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2020;69(43):1576-1583. doiI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6943e3external icon

• Delahoy MJ, Whitaker M, O'Halloran A, Chai SJ, Kirley PD, Alden N, Kawasaki B, Meek J, Yousey-Hindes K, Anderson EJ, Openo KP, Monroe ML, Ryan PA, Fox K, Kim S, Lynfield R, Siebman S, Davis SS, Sosin DM, Barney G, Muse A, Bennett NM, Felsen CB, Billing LM, Shiltz J, Sutton M, West N, Schaffner W, Talbot HK, George A, Spencer M, Ellington S, Galang RR, Gilboa SM, Tong VT, Piasecki A, Brammer L, Fry AM, Hall AJ, Wortham JM, Kim L, Garg S; COVID-NET Surveillance Team. Characteristics and Maternal and Birth Outcomes of Hospitalized Pregnant Women with Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 - COVID-NET, 13 States, March 1-August 22, 2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2020 Sep 25;69(38):1347-1354. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6938e1

• Ko JY, Danielson ML, Town M, Derado G, Greenlund KJ, Daily Kirley P, Alden NB, Yousey-Hindes K, Anderson EJ, Ryan PA, Kim S, Lynfield R, Torres SM, Barney GR, Bennett NM, Sutton M, Talbot HK, Hill M, Hall AJ, Fry AM, Garg S, Kim L; COVID-NET Surveillance Team. Risk Factors for COVID-19-associated hospitalization: COVID-19-Associated Hospitalization Surveillance Network and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Sep 18:ciaa1419. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1419. Epub ahead of print.

• Kim L, Whitaker M, O'Halloran A, Kambhampati A, Chai SJ, Reingold A, Armistead I, Kawasaki B, Meek J, Yousey-Hindes K, Anderson EJ, Openo KP, Weigel A, Ryan P, Monroe ML, Fox K, Kim S, Lynfield R, Bye E, Davis SS, Smelser C, Barney G, Spina NL, Bennett NM, et al. Hospitalization Rates and Characteristics of Children Aged <18 Years Hospitalized with Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 - COVID-NET, 14 States, March 1 - July 25, 2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2020 Aug 7; 69.

• Kim L, Garg S, O'Halloran A, Whitaker M, Pham H, Anderson EJ, Armistead I, Bennett NM, Billing L, Como-Sabetti K, et al. Risk Factors for Intensive Care Unit Admission and In-hospital Mortality among Hospitalized Adults Identified through the U.S. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)-Associated Hospitalization Surveillance Network (COVID-NET). Clin. Infect Dis. 2020 Jul 16. doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa1012. [Epub ahead of print]
• Garg S, Kim L, Whitaker M, O’Halloran A, Cummings C, Holstein R, Prill M, Chai SJ, Kirley PD, Alden NB, Kawasaki B, Yousey-Hindes K, Niccolai L, Anderson EJ, Openo KP, Weigel A, Monroe ML, Ryan P, Hendeson J, Kim S, Como-Sabetti K, Lynfield R, Sosin D, Torres S, Muse A, Bennett NM, et al. Hospitalization Rates and Characteristics of Patients Hospitalized with Laboratory-Confirmed Coronavirus Disease 2019 — COVID-NET, 14 States, March 1–30, 2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. ePub: 8 April 2020. DOI:10.15585/mmwr.mm6915e3