{"id":1193,"date":"2020-09-28T11:09:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T18:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2020-09-29T11:10:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T18:10:40","slug":"covid-19-trends-among-school-aged-children-united-states-march-1-september-19-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/28\/covid-19-trends-among-school-aged-children-united-states-march-1-september-19-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Trends Among School-Aged Children \u2014 United States, March 1\u2013September 19, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in school-age children increased from March and peaked in July and August, followed by a decline in September. During March 1\u2013September 19, 2020, the US reported a total of 277,285 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in school-aged children. The average weekly COVID-19 incidence among adolescents aged 12\u201317 years was approximately 2-fold higher than among children aged 5\u201311 years (37.4 vs. 19.0 per 100,000). The weekly incidence increased to a peak of 34-38 per 100,000 in July and August and decreased with a slight rebound to 23-26 per 100,000 in early September. Trends in incidence were similar among both age groups.<\/li>\n<li>The authors note that these estimates provide a baseline to monitor transmission among school age children as schools reopen for in-person learning in some districts around the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Leeb et al. (Sept 28, 2020). COVID-19 Trends Among School-Aged Children \u2014 United States, March 1\u2013September 19, 2020. MMWR. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6939e2\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6939e2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in school-age children increased from March and peaked in July and August, followed by a decline in September. During March 1\u2013September 19, 2020, the US reported a total of 277,285 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in school-aged children. The average weekly COVID-19 incidence among adolescents aged 12\u201317 years was approximately&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/28\/covid-19-trends-among-school-aged-children-united-states-march-1-september-19-2020\/\">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":[75],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-report","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","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=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}