{"id":10264,"date":"2021-06-08T13:16:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T20:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=10264"},"modified":"2021-06-09T13:17:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T20:17:03","slug":"decreases-in-covid-19-cases-emergency-department-visits-hospital-admissions-and-deaths-among-older-adults-following-the-introduction-of-covid-19-vaccine-united-states-september-6-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/08\/decreases-in-covid-19-cases-emergency-department-visits-hospital-admissions-and-deaths-among-older-adults-following-the-introduction-of-covid-19-vaccine-united-states-september-6-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Decreases in COVID-19 Cases, Emergency Department Visits, Hospital Admissions, and Deaths Among Older Adults Following the Introduction of COVID-19 Vaccine \u2014 United States, September 6, 2020\u2013May 1, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The rate ratios for COVID-19 incidence, emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations, and deaths comparing adults aged \u226565 years (\u226570 years for hospitalizations) to adults aged 18-49 years during a 2-week period in April 2021 declined by 40%, 59%, and 65%, respectively compared to a pre-vaccination period in November to December 2020. The authors conclude that the differential declines in COVID-19 outcomes are likely due to higher COVID-19 vaccination coverage among older adults. Since the COVID-19 vaccine administration began in December 2020, the proportion of persons aged \u226565 years receiving at least 1 dose was 25% in February 2021, 40% in March, and 82% by beginning of May compared to 7%, 10%, and 42%, among persons aged 18-49 years by the same dates, respectively. As of May 1, 2021, 69% of persons aged \u226565 years and 26% of persons 18\u201349 years were fully vaccinated.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Christie et al.\u00a0(June 8, 2021). Decreases in COVID-19 Cases, Emergency Department Visits, Hospital Admissions, and Deaths Among Older Adults Following the Introduction of COVID-19 Vaccine \u2014 United States, September 6, 2020\u2013May 1, 2021. MMWR. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7023e2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7023e2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rate ratios for COVID-19 incidence, emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations, and deaths comparing adults aged \u226565 years (\u226570 years for hospitalizations) to adults aged 18-49 years during a 2-week period in April 2021 declined by 40%, 59%, and 65%, respectively compared to a pre-vaccination period in November to December 2020. The authors conclude that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/08\/decreases-in-covid-19-cases-emergency-department-visits-hospital-admissions-and-deaths-among-older-adults-following-the-introduction-of-covid-19-vaccine-united-states-september-6-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29,33],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-10264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","tag-vaccines","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10265,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10264\/revisions\/10265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10264"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}