Abstract

Seroprevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) antibodies was 10% among the subset of decedents undergoing forensic postmortem examination in June in Maryland. Decedents of motor vehicle crashes had similar seroprevalence compared with those with a natural death (including decedents with SARS-CoV-2 infection). Decedents of motor vehicle crashes may be a sentinel surveillance population.

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Title
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Antibody Status in Decedents Undergoing Forensic Postmortem Examination in Maryland, May 24 to June 30, 2020
Author
Althoff, Keri N 1 ; Laeyendecker, Oliver 2 ; Li, Rong 3 ; Coburn, Sally B 1 ; Klock, Ethan 4 ; Baker, Owen R 5 ; Quinn, Thomas C 2 ; Jeffrey, Michael 6 ; Shields, Wendy C 6 ; Ehsani, Johnathon 6 ; Thomas, F Dennis 7 ; Graham, Lindsey A 7 ; Zabiullah Ali 3 ; Manabe, Yukari C 4 ; Li, Ling 8 

 Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 
 Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA 
 Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Maryland Department of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 
 Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 
 Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA 
 Center for Injury Research and Policy, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 
 Dunlap and Associates, Inc., Stamford, Connecticut, USA 
 Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Maryland Department of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 
Publication year
2021
Publication date
Jan 2021
Publisher
Oxford University Press
e-ISSN
23288957
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3171174188
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.