Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence in England following the first peak of the pandemic

  • Helen Ward,
  • Christina Atchison,
  • Matthew Whitaker,
  • Kylie E. C. Ainslie,
  • Joshua Elliott,
  • Lucy Okell,
  • Rozlyn Redd,
  • Deborah Ashby,
  • Christl A. Donnelly,
  • Wendy Barclay,
  • Ara Darzi,
  • Graham Cooke,
  • Steven Riley,
  • Paul Elliott

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21237-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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REACT-2 is a large-scale community study of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in England. Here, the authors estimate that 6% of adults in England had been infected by mid-July 2020, with health and long-term care workers and those of Black or South Asian ethnicity disproportionately affected.