Self-Assessed Severity as a Determinant of COVID-19 Symptom Specificity: A Longitudinal Cohort Study
AUTHORS
- PMID: 35152299 [PubMed].
ABSTRACT
COVID-19 symptom definitions rarely include symptom severity. We collected daily nasal swabs and symptom diaries from contacts of SARS-CoV-2 cases. Requiring ≥1 moderate or severe symptom reduced sensitivity to predict SARS-CoV-2 shedding from 60.0% (CI: 52.9-66.7%) to 31.5% (CI: 25.7-38.0%), but increased specificity from 77.5% (CI:75.3-79.5%) to 93.8% (CI: 92.7-94.8%).
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