{"id":1197,"date":"2020-09-28T11:15:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T18:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2020-09-29T11:16:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T18:16:18","slug":"age-specific-covid-19-case-fatality-rate-no-evidence-of-changes-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/28\/age-specific-covid-19-case-fatality-rate-no-evidence-of-changes-over-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Age-Specific COVID-19 Case-Fatality Rate: No Evidence of Changes over Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Using national-level surveillance data from April to August in Italy, Signorelli and Odone reported the case fatality of COVID-19 varied significantly by age (ranging from 0.1-2.8% in people &lt;60\u00a0years up to 29-35% in people \u00b380\u00a0years). However, the age-specific rates were similar over time, as estimated at 2, 4 and 6 months since the onset of the epidemic. The authors conclude that the less severe COVID-19 clinical outcomes reported recently in Italy and other European sites may be due an increasing proportion of infections occurring in younger age groups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Signorelli and Odone. (Sept 25, 2020). Age-Specific COVID-19 Case-Fatality Rate: No Evidence of Changes over Time. International Journal of Public Health. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00038-020-01486-0\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00038-020-01486-0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using national-level surveillance data from April to August in Italy, Signorelli and Odone reported the case fatality of COVID-19 varied significantly by age (ranging from 0.1-2.8% in people &lt;60\u00a0years up to 29-35% in people \u00b380\u00a0years). However, the age-specific rates were similar over time, as estimated at 2, 4 and 6 months since the onset of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/28\/age-specific-covid-19-case-fatality-rate-no-evidence-of-changes-over-time\/\">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":[46],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-risk-factors","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","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=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}