{"id":3206,"date":"2021-01-13T13:20:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T21:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3206"},"modified":"2021-01-14T13:22:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T21:22:59","slug":"covid-19-trends-among-persons-aged-0-24-years-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/13\/covid-19-trends-among-persons-aged-0-24-years-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Trends Among Persons Aged 0 \u2013 24 Years \u2014 United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 cases in children, adolescents, and young adults increased since summer 2020, with weekly incidence higher in each successively increasing age group. During March 1\u2013December 12, 2020, a total of 2,871,828 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in young people aged 0\u201324 years were reported in the United States, with the majority (57%) occurring among those aged 18\u201324 years. 52% of all cases occurred in females. Among the 1,504,165 (52%) young people with COVID-19 with complete information on race\/ethnicity, 50% were non-Hispanic white, 27% were Hispanic\/Latino, and 12% were non-Hispanic Black.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The authors note that the data do not indicate that increases in incidence in adults were preceded by increases among preschool- or school-aged children and adolescents. In contrast, incidence among young adults (aged 18\u201324 years) was higher than that in other age groups throughout the summer and fall, with peaks that preceded increases among other age groups, suggesting that young adults might contribute more to community transmission than do younger children.<\/p>\n<p><i>Leidman et al. (2021). COVID-19 Trends Among Persons Aged 0 \u2013 24 Years \u2014 United States. MMWR. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/pdfs\/mm7003e1-H.pdf\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/pdfs\/mm7003e1-H.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 cases in children, adolescents, and young adults increased since summer 2020, with weekly incidence higher in each successively increasing age group. During March 1\u2013December 12, 2020, a total of 2,871,828 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in young people aged 0\u201324 years were reported in the United States, with the majority (57%) occurring among those aged&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/13\/covid-19-trends-among-persons-aged-0-24-years-united-states\/\">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":[29],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-3206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206","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=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3207,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions\/3207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}