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Estimating COVID-19 Prevalence in the United States: A Sample Selection Model Approach

Estimating COVID-19 Prevalence in the United States: A Sample Selection Model Approach

Background: Public health efforts to determine population infection rates from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have been hampered by limitations in testing capabilities and the large shares of mild and asymptomatic cases. We developed a methodology that corrects observed positive test rates for non-random sampling to estimate population infection rates across …