How to Use seroprevalence in a Sentence

seroprevalence

noun

• The harder hit places have higher seroprevalence, but even the hard hit places don’t seem to have crazy numbers.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 24 Apr. 2020
• This is the first time that the population seroprevalence is over 50%.
  — Andrew Joseph and Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 29 Apr. 2022
• This is not a true seroprevalence or attack-rate measurement, and that’s fine.
  — Maciej F. Boni, The Conversation, 3 Mar. 2021
• Surges in seroprevalence have also been recorded abroad.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2022
• Researchers found more of an increase in seroprevalence in age groups with the lowest vaccination rate, Clarke said.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2022
• This kind of research, sometimes called a serosurveillance or seroprevalence study, is one of the best ways to track the still-expanding pandemic, say researchers involved with the project.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2021
• The data do not include seroprevalence by race and ethnicity.
  — Andrew Joseph and Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 29 Apr. 2022
• That was based on seroprevalence tests of how many people had antibodies in their bloodstream in response to the coronavirus infection.
  — Jeremy Olson, Star Tribune, 25 Nov. 2020
• Researchers can, however, estimate the true spread of the disease based on seroprevalence studies, reported cases, and death counts.
  — Alex Putterman, courant.com, 30 Oct. 2021
• Dengue fever seroprevalence and risk factors, Texas-Mexico border, 2004.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2013
• The percentage of people with antibodies is known as seroprevalence.
  — Dan Keating, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2022
• Some local governments have done their own seroprevalence research.
  — NBC News, 19 May 2020
• Overall seroprevalence was 11%, and was highest in older age groups, as well as seasonal workers and families with larger households.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• The risk of mortality from Covid-19 infection is now well established by seroprevalence studies conducted world-wide.
  — Sunetra Gupta, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2020
• Still, the seroprevalence data looking at antibodies just from prior infections reflects the success of vaccination as well as the higher death rate in older people.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2022
• The coronavirus had spread through the entire country; seroprevalence among the rural population (66.5%) was only slightly lower than in urban counterparts.
  — Rajib Dasgupta, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2021
• These studies, known as seroprevalence surveys, use bloodwork to show who has some level of immunity to the coronavirus — whether through vaccinations or a previous infection.
  — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2022
• India's vaccination rate is low, but a national seroprevalence survey released in July suggested that about two-thirds of the country has antibodies after the brutal spring surge.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 6 Aug. 2021
• There is also extreme variability within the country in terms of both infection fatality rate and seroprevalence.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2021
• The new findings are from the CDC’s national antibody seroprevalence survey of blood tests for antibodies to the coronavirus triggered by infection, not by vaccination.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland, 4 Mar. 2022
• By measuring Covid-19 seroprevalence, the study provides an estimate of the percentage of the population that was previously infected.
  — Tasnim Ahmed and Katherine Dillinger, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022
• Gottlieb said seroprevalence studies overall indicate that roughly 8% of the U.S. population has been exposed to the coronavirus, though the rate of exposure varies depending on whether states have experienced outbreaks.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2020
• And some other seroprevalence studies have set off fierce debates among researchers and policymakers, who have raised questions about the accuracy and implications of specific methods.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2021
• Antibodies don’t last forever, but Ghaly said that level of seroprevalence suggests a large percentage of residents already have some level of immunity.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• However, in spite of the likely large burden of such an endemic disease, no comprehensive national or even large regional seroprevalence studies or screening guidelines exist.
  — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2023
• Random sampling revealed that seroprevalence—the rate of individuals who test positive for antibodies—was around forty-five per cent, indicating that nearly half the population had been infected at some point.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• Epidemiologists say a nationwide seroprevalence survey released in July, which checks blood samples for the presence of covid-19 antibodies, may offer clues about which regions will be susceptible.
  — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2021
• However, experts say seroprevalence — the number of people who have antibodies from a previous infection — may be helping block the coronavirus’ inroads, especially among populations that have been less able to avoid it, such as essential workers.
  — Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2021
• The California pediatric coronavirus seroprevalence rate is lower than the national average at 71.4%.
  — Rita Beamish, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Aug. 2022
• Increasing seroprevalence has also changed how vaccine effectiveness is measured.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 3 July 2023

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024