The COVID-19 Community Research Partnership: A multistate surveillance platform for characterizing the epidemiology of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

Thomas F. Wierzba, John Walton Sanders, David Herrington, Mark A. Espeland, John Williamson, Morgana Mongraw-Chaffin, Alain Bertoni, Martha A. Alexander-Miller, Paola Castri, Allison Mathews, Iqra Munawar, Austin Lyles Seals, Brian Ostasiewski, Christine Ann Pittman Ballard, Metin Gurcan, Alexander Ivanov, Giselle Melendez Zapata, Marlena Westcott, Karen Blinson, Laura BlinsonMark Mistysyn, Donna Davis, Lynda Doomy, Perrin Henderson, Alicia Jessup, Kimberly Lane, Beverly Levine, Jessica McCanless, Sharon McDaniel, Kathryn Melius, Christine O'Neill, Angelina Pack, Ritu Rathee, Scott Rushing, Jennifer Sheets, Sandra Soots, Michele Wall, Samantha Wheeler, John White, Lisa Wilkerson, Rebekah Wilson, Kenneth Wilson, Deb Burcombe, Georgia Saylor, Megan Lunn, Karina Ordonez, Ashley O'Steen, Leigh Wagner, Michael S. Runyon, Lewis H. McCurdy, Michael A. Gibbs, Yhenneko J. Taylor, Lydia Calamari, Hazel Tapp, Amina Ahmed, Michael Brennan, Lindsay Munn, Keerti L. Dantuluri, Timothy Hetherington, Lauren C. Lu, Connell Dunn, Melanie Hogg, Andrea Price, Marina Leonidas, Melinda Manning, Whitney Rossman, Frank X. Gohs, Anna Harris, Jennifer S. Priem, Pilar Tochiki, Nicole Wellinsky, Crystal Silva, Tom Ludden, Jackeline Hernandez, Kennisha Spencer, Laura McAlister, William Weintraub, Kristen Miller, Chris Washington, Allison Moses, Sarahfaye Dolman, Julissa Zelaya-Portillo, John Erkus, Joseph Blumenthal, Ronald E. Romero Barrientos, Sonita Bennett, Shrenik Shah, Shrey Mathur, Christian Boxley, Paul Kolm, Ella Franklin, Naheed Ahmed, Moira Larsen, Richard Oberhelman, Joseph Keating, Patricia Kissinger, John Schieffelin, Joshua Yukich, Andrew Beron, Johanna Teigen, Karen Kotloff, Wilbur H. Chen, De Anna Friedman-Klabanoff, Andrea A. Berry, Helen Powell, Lynnee Roane, Reva Datar, Colleen Reilly, Adolfo Correa, Bhagyashri Navalkele, Yuan I. Min, Alexandra Castillo, Lori Ward, Robert P. Santos, Pramod Anugu, Yan Gao, Jason Green, Ramona Sandlin, Donald Moore, Lemichal Drake, Dorothy Horton, Kendra L. Johnson, Michael Stover, William H. Lagarde, La Monica Daniel, Patrick D. Maguire, Charin L. Hanlon, Lynette McFayden, Isaura Rigo, Kelli Hines, Lindsay Smith, Monique Harris, Belinda Lissor, Vivian Cook, Maddy Eversole, Terry Herrin, Dennis Murphy, Lauren Kinney, Polly Diehl, Nicholas Abromitis, Tina St Pierre, Bill Heckman, Denise Evans, Julian March, Ben Whitlock, Wendy Moore, Sarah Arthur, Joseph Conway, Thomas R. Gallaher, Mathew Johanson, Sawyer Brown, Tina Dixon, Martha Reavis, Shakira Henderson, Michael Zimmer, Danielle Oliver, Kasheta Jackson, Monica Menon, Brandon Bishop, Rachel Roeth, Robin King-Thiele, Terri S. Hamrick, Abdalla Ihmeidan, Amy Hinkelman, Chika Okafor, Regina B. Bray Brown, Amber Brewster, Danius Bouyi, Katrina Lamont, Kazumi Yoshinaga, Poornima Vinod, A. Suman Peela, Giera Denbel, Jason Lo, Mariam Mayet-Khan, Akash Mittal, Reena Motwani, Mohamed Raafat, Evan Schultz, Aderson Joseph, Aalok Parkeh, Dhara Patel, Babar Afridi, Diane Uschner, Sharon L. Edelstein, Michele Santacatterina, Greg Strylewicz, Brian Burke, Mihili Gunaratne, Meghan Turney, Shirley Qin Zhou, Ashley H. Tjaden, Lida Fette, Asare Buahin, Matthew Bott, Sophia Graziani, Ashvi Soni, Guoqing Diao, Jone Renteria, Christopher Mores, Abigail Porzucek, Rebecca Laborde, Pranav Acharya, Lucy Guill, Danielle Lamphier, Anna Schaefer, William M. Satterwhite, Anne McKeague, Johnathan Ward, Diana P. Naranjo, Nana Darko, Kimberly Castellon, Ryan Brink, Haris Shehzad, Derek Kuprianov, Douglas McGlasson, Devin Hayes, Sierra Edwards, Stephane Daphnis, Britnee Todd, Atira Goodwin, Ruth Berkelman, Kimberly Hanson, Scott Zeger, Johns Hopkins, Cavan Reilly, Kathy Edwards, Helene Gayle, Stephen Redd

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Abstract

The COVID-19 Community Research Partnership (CCRP) is a multisite surveillance platform designed to characterize the epidemiology of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-COV-2) pandemic. This article describes the CCRP study design and methodology. The CCRP includes two prospective cohorts, one with six health systems in the mid-Atlantic and southern USA, and the other with six health systems in North Carolina. With enrollment beginning in April 2020, sites invited persons within their healthcare systems as well as community members to participate in daily surveillance for symptoms of COVID-like illnesses, testing, and risk behaviors. Participants with electronic health records (EHRs) were also asked to volunteer data access. Subsets of participants, representative of the general population and including oversampling of populations of interest, were selected for repeated at-home serology testing. By October 2021, 65 739 participants (62 261 adult and 3478 pediatric) were enrolled, with 89% providing syndromic data, 74% providing EHR data, and 70% participating in one of the two serology sub-studies. An average of 62% of the participants completed a daily survey at least once a week, and 55% of the serology kits were returned. The CCRP provides rich regional epidemiologic data and the opportunity to more fully characterize the risks and sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article numberbpac033
JournalBiology Methods and Protocols
Volume7
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022

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Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • cohort
  • electronic health records
  • epidemiology
  • methodology
  • serology
  • surveillance
  • symptoms

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