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We calculated the seroprevalence, overall and in groups defined by age and sex, as the proportion of participants who had detectable IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in any round by the CMIA test (supplementary table 1). Response to the CMIA test was lower in individuals aged younger than 10 (22.3% of eligible individuals) and older than 80 (51.7%), and in men aged 20-59 compared with women (62.6% v 70.1%). Of the remaining 68вЂ‰291 study participants, 61вЂ‰098 received the CMIA test in at least one round (61.8% of eligible individuals and 68.9% of contacted individuals), with 43вЂ‰212 participants receiving the CMIA test in all three rounds, 11вЂ‰618 in two rounds, and 6268 in one round ( fig 1). Of 98вЂ‰891 individuals who were eligible for the ENE-COVID seroepidemiological survey, 10вЂ‰238 could not be contacted, 14вЂ‰926 declined to participate, 15 had missing data for age, and 5421 did not have valid results from the point-of-care test. The study used two immunoassays to detect IgG antibodies: a point-of-care test (Orient Gene Biotech covid-19 IgG/IgM Rapid Test Cassette) and a chemiluminescent microparticle immunoassay (CMIA) that required venepuncture (SARS-CoV-2 IgG for use with ARCHITECT Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL reference 06R8620), with better performance characteristics (supplementary methods and supplementary figure 1 show a summary of reported sensitivity and specificity estimates of the CMIA test). Half of the households were randomly assigned to data collection during the first week of each round and the other half to the second week, so that serum specimens were collected in all participants two to four weeks apart.

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Serial data from epidemiological questionnaires and serology tests were collected for all study participants in three successive follow-up rounds between 27 April and 22 June 2020.Д®ach round was completed in two weeks, with a one week break between rounds. All residents in the 35вЂ‰885 selected households were invited to participate in the study, resulting in a selected sample of 104вЂ‰605 individuals of all ages. 6 Briefly, 1500 census tracts, and up to 24 households within each tract, were randomly selected with a two stage sampling method stratified by province and municipality size. The design of the survey has been described previously. We calculated the prevalence of IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in the community dwelling Spanish population with data from ENE-COVID, a nationwide population based seroepidemiological survey. We report overall, and age and sex specific, estimates of the infection fatality risk for SARS-CoV-2 from the large nationally representative seroepidemiological survey of SARS-CoV-2 virus infection in the community dwelling Spanish population (Encuesta SeroepidemiolГіgica de la InfecciГіn por el Virus SARS-CoV-2 en EspaГ±a ENE-COVID). Accurate and reliable age and sex specific estimates of infection fatality risk are needed. Also, because the infection fatality risk for SARS-CoV-2 is expected to increase with age and might differ by sex, overall crude estimates of infection fatality risk cannot be directly compared between populations with different age and sex structures (eg, China and western Europe). 5 Estimates of infection fatality risk were mostly based on surveillance registered deaths, and substantial heterogeneity was seen between studies, with estimates ranging from 0.16% to 1.60%. The methodological quality of many of these studies was questionable, however, with some exceptions. 3 Also, because determining the number of deaths from covid-19 is often difficult, calculation of the infection fatality risk can be complemented with data on excess mortality.ДЄ recent unpublished review of 24 serological reports, 4 several also unpublished, estimated an overall infection fatality risk of 0.68% (95% confidence interval 0.53% to 0.83%). Therefore, estimating the infection fatality risk relies on population based seroepidemiological surveys that provide an estimate of the proportion of individuals infected, regardless of symptoms. Even if all symptomatic infections were diagnosed, which has not happened so far in most countries, asymptomatic infections cannot be clinically identified. Because the magnitude of the infection fatality risk for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is still debated, 1 2 lockdowns and other forms of social distancing have been questioned as appropriate responses to the coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) pandemic.ДЄn accurate estimation of the infection fatality risk of SARS-CoV-2 is difficult. The infection fatality risk-the proportion of infected individuals who die from an infection-is a key indicator to design public health policies to control infectious diseases.