Spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the Icelandic Population.
Daniel F GudbjartssonAgnar HelgasonHakon JonssonOlafur T MagnussonPall MelstedGudmundur L NorddahlJona SaemundsdottirAsgeir SigurdssonPatrick SulemArna B AgustsdottirBerglind EiriksdottirRun FridriksdottirElisabet E GardarsdottirGudmundur GeorgssonOlafia S GretarsdottirKjartan R GudmundssonThora R GunnarsdottirArnaldur GylfasonHilma HolmBrynjar O JenssonAslaug JonasdottirFrosti JonssonKamilla S JosefsdottirThordur KristjanssonDroplaug N MagnusdottirLouise le RouxGudrun SigmundsdottirGardar SveinbjornssonKristin E SveinsdottirManey SveinsdottirEmil A ThorarensenBjarni ThorbjornssonArthur LöveGisli MassonIngileif JonsdottirAlma D MöllerThorolfur GudnasonKarl G KristinssonUnnur ThorsteinsdottirKari StefanssonPublished in: The New England journal of medicine (2020)
In a population-based study in Iceland, children under 10 years of age and females had a lower incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection than adolescents or adults and males. The proportion of infected persons identified through population screening did not change substantially during the screening period, which was consistent with a beneficial effect of containment efforts. (Funded by deCODE Genetics-Amgen.).