Chelsea G Major, Dania M Rodríguez, Liliana Sánchez-González, Vanessa Rodríguez-Estrada, Tatiana Morales-Ortíz, Carolina Torres, Nicole M Pérez-Rodríguez, Nicole A Medina-Lópes, Neal Alexander, David Mabey, Kyle Ryff, Rafael Tosado-Acevedo, Jorge Muñoz-Jordán, Laura E Adams, Vanessa Rivera-Amill, Melissa Rolfes, Gabriela Paz-Bailey
BACKGROUND: A better understanding of SARS-CoV-2 infection risk among Hispanic and Latino populations and in low-resource settings in the United States is needed to inform control efforts and strategies to improve health equity. Puerto Rico has a high poverty rate and other population characteristics associated with increased vulnerability to COVID-19, and there are limited data to date to determine community incidence. OBJECTIVE: This study describes the protocol and baseline seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in a prospective community-based cohort study (COPA COVID-19 [COCOVID] study) to investigate SARS-CoV-2 infection incidence and morbidity in Ponce, Puerto Rico...
April 19, 2024: JMIR Research Protocols