A Look at DESE's Cited Sources: Footnote #70 - New York State Coronavirus 2019 Response Team, COVID-19 Testing, Epidemic Features, Hospital Outcomes, and Household Prevalence, New York State—March 2020

DESE Claim: "In NYC, in households with at least one COVID-19 case, prevalence of infection for children 5-≤18 was 31.9% vs. overall prevalence 52.5%."

Cited Source: Eli S Rosenberg, Elizabeth M Dufort, Debra S Blog, …, New York State Coronavirus 2019 Response Team, COVID-19 Testing, Epidemic Features, Hospital Outcomes, and Household Prevalence, New York State—March 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa549

Peer Reviewed?: unclear - "accepted manuscript"

Study Methodology: "epidemiological investigations and hospital record-linkage"

Notes: This is a study of household infection, not overall infection rates. It looks at infections of people in New York State outside of New York City. A total of 138 children ages 5 to <18  with a household member who had COVID-19 were tested, and 44 tested positive. 

Supports DESE Claim?: No - this is not a New York City study. The data is from New York State excluding NYC.