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COVID-19: Dark number and immunity situation in the Viennese population - data from the Vienna health study LEAD

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Start & end year

    2020
    2020

  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $54,500

  • Funder

    WWTF Austria

  • Principal Investigator

    Otto Chris Burghuber

  • Research Location

    Austria

  • Lead Research Institution

    Ludwig Boltzmann Society (LBG)

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Epidemiological studies

  • Research Subcategory

    Disease susceptibility

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

The publicly published case numbers of people who tested positive for COVID-19 say nothing about how many people in a certain region actually carry the virus (how high the number of unreported cases of this disease is). The epidemiological population sample of the LEAD cohort comprises> 11,000 test persons aged 6-80, who were included in a representative manner according to age, gender and place of residence in Vienna. This population sample is therefore well suited to systematically examine the prevalence of Covid-19 infections with regard to the number of unreported cases in all age groups. Since more than 1,500 individual parameters were measured in the participants of the LEAD study, conclusions can also be drawn about socioeconomics, lifestyle factors and possible risk profiles (age, gender, Comorbidity, smoking behavior etc.). The testing of the volunteer subjects takes place in a university reference laboratory.