{"id":3680,"date":"2021-02-03T22:24:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T06:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3680"},"modified":"2021-02-03T22:24:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T06:24:58","slug":"age-groups-that-sustain-resurging-covid-19-epidemics-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/03\/age-groups-that-sustain-resurging-covid-19-epidemics-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Age Groups That Sustain Resurging COVID-19 Epidemics in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of October 2020, SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the US was estimated to be largely driven by individuals between 20-49 years of age, with at least 65 of every 100 infections originating from this age group. Using cell phone mobility data to reconstruct contact patterns, a Bayesian contact-and-infection model was used to analyze age-specific mobility trends for more than 10 million people. The model estimated that until mid-August 2020, the percent contribution to onward spread was estimated to be around 35% from individuals aged 20-34, and 41% from individuals aged 35-49. School reopenings were not found to result in substantial increases in COVID-19 attributable deaths and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>adults age 20-49 accounted for an estimated 72% of infections after schools reopened, compared to less than 5% originating from children aged 0-9 and less than 10% from teens aged 10-19.<\/p>\n<p><i>Monod et al. (Feb 2, 2021). Age Groups That Sustain Resurging COVID-19 Epidemics in the United States. Science. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.abe8372\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.abe8372<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of October 2020, SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the US was estimated to be largely driven by individuals between 20-49 years of age, with at least 65 of every 100 infections originating from this age group. Using cell phone mobility data to reconstruct contact patterns, a Bayesian contact-and-infection model was used to analyze age-specific mobility trends&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/03\/age-groups-that-sustain-resurging-covid-19-epidemics-in-the-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":[38],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-3680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680","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=3680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3681,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions\/3681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3680"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}