{"id":1957,"date":"2020-11-03T13:35:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T21:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2020-11-04T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T21:37:08","slug":"age-specific-mortality-and-immunity-patterns-of-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/03\/age-specific-mortality-and-immunity-patterns-of-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Age-Specific Mortality and Immunity Patterns of SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using age-specific COVID-19 death data and seroprevalence studies, the age distribution of deaths among those &lt;65 years old was consistent across 45 countries. The infection fatality ratio (IFR) was estimated to be the lowest among children aged 5-9 years old (0.001%) and increased with age. The highest IFR was observed among those 80+ (8.3%). Mortality varied more substantially between locations among people \u226565 than among younger groups. The authors further estimate that approximately 5% of the populations across 45 countries have been infected, with a potentially much higher transmission having occurred in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p><i>O\u2019Driscoll et al. (Nov 2, 2020). Age-Specific Mortality and Immunity Patterns of SARS-CoV-2. Nature. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41586-020-2918-0\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41586-020-2918-0<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using age-specific COVID-19 death data and seroprevalence studies, the age distribution of deaths among those &lt;65 years old was consistent across 45 countries. The infection fatality ratio (IFR) was estimated to be the lowest among children aged 5-9 years old (0.001%) and increased with age. The highest IFR was observed among those 80+ (8.3%). Mortality&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/03\/age-specific-mortality-and-immunity-patterns-of-sars-cov-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40,56],"topic":[24],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-geographic-spread","tag-immune","topic-geographic-spread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}