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Table 2 Characteristics of patients with a positive SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test, by any UHC*

From: Association between any underlying health condition and COVID-19-associated hospitalization by age group, Washington State, 2020–2021: a retrospective cohort study

 

Total (N = 7,452)

Any UHC (N = 5,341)

No UHC (N = 2,111)

Characteristic

n

%

n

%

n

%

Age (years)

(mean ± SD)

45.7

 ± 19.1

49.4

 ± 18.9

36.3

 ± 16.0

Age group (years)

 18–39

3,249

43.6

1,869

35.0

1,380

65.4

 40–64

2,840

38.1

2,254

42.2

586

27.8

 65 + 

1,363

18.3

1,218

22.8

145

6.9

Sex§

 Female

3,712

49.8

2,504

46.9

1,208

57.2

 Male

3,740

50.2

2,837

53.1

903

42.8

Race and ethnicity

 Hispanic or Latine

1,301

17.5

934

17.5

367

17.4

 NH AIAN

70

0.9

63

1.2

7

0.3

 NH Asian

635

8.5

431

8.1

204

9.7

 NH Black

1,012

13.6

763

14.3

249

11.8

 NH NHPI

147

2.0

122

2.3

25

1.2

 NH White

3,268

43.9

2,405

45.0

863

40.9

 Not recorded

1,019

13.7

623

11.7

396

18.8

Insurance

 Private

3,934

52.8

2,667

49.9

1,267

60.0

 Public

2,716

36.4

2,190

41.0

526

24.9

 Uninsured

517

6.9

383

7.2

134

6.3

 Not recorded

285

3.8

101

1.9

184

8.7

  1. SARS-CoV-2   Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, RT-PCR   Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, UHC   Underlying health condition, SD   Standard deviation, NH   Non-Hispanic, AIAN   American Indian or Alaska Native, NHPI   Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
  2. *University of Washington Medicine healthcare system, 02/29/2020 to 03/13/2021
  3. Conditions possibly associated with increased risk of severe coronavirus disease 2019 per the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [19], (all yes/no) based on electronic health record data; see Supplementary Table 1 (in Additional File 1) for list of conditions
  4. Age at first positive SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test within University of Washington Medicine; 2 patients (< 0.1%) had implausible ages (≥ 120 years) and were dropped from the analysis
  5. §Sex assigned at birth; 2 patients (< 0.1%) were missing data on sex assigned at birth and dropped from the analysis
  6. A measure of individual-level socioeconomic position; to capture information about the pre-pandemic period, health insurance data were based on the most recent encounter from 01/01/2017 to 02/28/2020 for which health insurance data were available; private includes patients with Medicare Advantage (Part C), Medicare Supplement (Medigap), Medicare (Part D), employer-sponsored and individual plans, private military insurance, and other forms of private insurance; public includes patients on Medicaid, Medicare (Part A and/or B only), public military insurance, and other forms of public insurance; uninsured includes patients without health insurance and patients with Indian Health Services insurance [42, 43]