{"id":4341,"date":"2021-02-17T13:35:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T21:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4341"},"modified":"2021-02-18T13:36:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T21:36:48","slug":"overall-burden-and-characteristics-of-covid-19-in-the-united-states-during-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/17\/overall-burden-and-characteristics-of-covid-19-in-the-united-states-during-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Overall Burden and Characteristics of COVID-19 in the United States during 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/i> A data-driven model-inference approach to simulate the COVID-19 pandemic at the US county-scale determined that approximately one third of the US population had been infected during 2020.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The model concluded that there was an overall ascertainment rate of 22%, and population susceptibility at year end was 69%. The percentage of people harboring a contagious infection rose above 0.8% before the end of the year and was as high as 2.4% in some major metropolitan areas. The infection fatality rate fell to 0.3% by the end of 2020.<\/p>\n<p><i>Pei et al. (Feb 17, 2021). Overall Burden and Characteristics of COVID-19 in the United States during 2020. Pre-print downloaded Feb 17 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.02.15.21251777\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.02.15.21251777<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A data-driven model-inference approach to simulate the COVID-19 pandemic at the US county-scale determined that approximately one third of the US population had been infected during 2020.\u00a0 The model concluded that there was an overall ascertainment rate of 22%, and population susceptibility at year end was 69%. The percentage of people harboring&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/17\/overall-burden-and-characteristics-of-covid-19-in-the-united-states-during-2020\/\">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":[34,63],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-4341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","tag-mortality","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341","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=4341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4342,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions\/4342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4341"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}