{"id":1081,"date":"2020-09-23T09:17:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T16:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2020-09-24T09:23:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T16:23:21","slug":"changing-age-distribution-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-united-states-may-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/23\/changing-age-distribution-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-united-states-may-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Age Distribution of the COVID-19 Pandemic \u2014 United States, May\u2013August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>There was a shift in the age distribution of people affected by COVID-19 in the US between the period of January-May and June-August 2020, with a larger proportion of younger age groups affected in the later period. The authors conclude that this report provides preliminary evidence that younger adults contributed to community transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to older adults, based on the observation that in June, the increase in SARS-CoV-2 cases among younger adults preceded the increase among older adults by 4\u201315 days. <em>[EDITORIAL NOTE. A lag in the increase in SARS-CoV-2 cases among older adults could also be explained by delays in presentation for testing among older versus young people]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Boehmer et al. (Sept 23, 2020). Changing Age Distribution of the COVID-19 Pandemic \u2014 United States, May\u2013August 2020. MMWR. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6939e1\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6939e1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a shift in the age distribution of people affected by COVID-19 in the US between the period of January-May and June-August 2020, with a larger proportion of younger age groups affected in the later period. The authors conclude that this report provides preliminary evidence that younger adults contributed to community transmission of SARS-CoV-2&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/23\/changing-age-distribution-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-united-states-may-august-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29,38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}