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In “Identifying COVID-19 Outbreaks From Contact-Tracing Interview Forms for Public Health Departments: Development of a Natural Language Processing Pipeline” (JMIR Public Health Surveill 2022;8(3):e36119), the authors noted a few errors.
In the originally published paper, the following two sentences appeared under the “Results” section:
Of the 46,798 confirmed and probable cases, only 1588 (3.39%) were probable cases and the remainder were confirmed cases of COVID-19. In Dane County, non-Hispanic Whites accounted for 30,358 (64.87%) of the confirmed and probable cases, and the median age was 30 years (IQR 20-47).
These sentences have been corrected to:
Of the 46,902 confirmed and probable cases, only 1595 (3.40%) were probable cases and the remainder were confirmed cases of COVID-19. In Dane County, non-Hispanic Whites accounted for 30,423 (64.87%) of the confirmed and probable cases, and the median age was 30 years (IQR 20-47).
In the corrected version of the paper,
Characteristics of COVID-19 cases and noncases in Dane County, Wisconsin, between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021.
Individual characteristics | Negative cases (N=323,424) | Probable/confirmed cases (N=46,902) | Total (N=370,326) | |
Age (years), median (IQR) | 32 (20-51) | 30 (20-47) | 31 (20-51) | |
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Male | 152,852 (47.26) | 23,506 (50.12) | 176,358 (47.62) |
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Female | 165,482 (51.17) | 23,314 (49.71) | 188,796 (50.98) |
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Unknown | 5090 (1.57) | 82 (0.17) | 5172 (1.40) |
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Non-Hispanic White | 199,629 (61.72) | 30,423 (64.87) | 230,052 (62.12) |
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Non-Hispanic Black | 14,302 (4.42) | 3266 (6.96) | 17,568 (4.74) |
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Hispanic | 23,878 (7.38) | 6662 (14.20) | 30,540 (8.25) |
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Other | 85,615 (26.47) | 6551 (13.97) | 92,166 (24.89) |
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Not recorded | 311,809 (96.41) | 37,083 (79.06) | 348,892 (94.21) |
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Nonuniversity student | 3099 (0.96) | 2391 (5.10) | 5490 (1.48) |
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University student | 1161 (0.36) | 903 (1.93) | 2064 (0.56) |
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Retired | 573 (0.18) | 468 (1.00) | 1041 (0.28) |
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Unemployed | 502 (0.16) | 429 (0.91) | 931 (0.25) |
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Other | 6280 (1.94) | 5628 (12.00) | 11,908 (3.22) |
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Madison | 159,983 (49.47) | 23,949 (51.06) | 183,932 (49.67) |
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Sun Prairie | 22,667 (7.01) | 3722 (7.94) | 26,389 (7.13) |
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Fitchburg | 16,104 (4.98) | 2983 (6.36) | 19,087 (5.15) |
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Middleton | 15,991 (4.94) | 1838 (3.92) | 17,829 (4.81) |
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Verona | 15,224 (4.71) | 1745 (3.72) | 16,969 (4.58) |
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Other | 93,455 (28.90) | 12,665 (27.00) | 106,120 (28.66) |
aMultiple responses were possible.
The correction will appear in the online version of the paper on the JMIR Publications website on March 24, 2022, together with the publication of this correction notice. Because this was made after submission to PubMed, PubMed Central, and other full-text repositories, the corrected article has also been resubmitted to those repositories.
Originally published Table 2.