{"id":5612,"date":"2020-04-02T14:56:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T21:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5612"},"modified":"2021-03-03T14:57:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T22:57:29","slug":"disparities-in-age-specific-morbidity-and-mortality-from-sars-cov-2-in-china-and-the-republic-of-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/02\/disparities-in-age-specific-morbidity-and-mortality-from-sars-cov-2-in-china-and-the-republic-of-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Disparities in Age-Specific Morbidity and Mortality from SARS-CoV-2 in China and the Republic of Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors analyze morbidity and mortality data from China and South Korea by age and sex.\u00a0 Results showed a normal distribution in China with peak morbidity at ages 50-59, and a bimodal distribution in Korea with the highest peak morbidity at ages 20-29 and a second peak at ages 50-59.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The study suggests that poor compliance with social distancing and self-quarantine may have had an impact on age-specific morbidity, especially among the younger Korean cohort.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dudley and Lee. (March 27, 2020). Disparities in Age-Specific Morbidity and Mortality from SARS-CoV-2 in China and the Republic of Korea. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.24.20042598\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.24.20042598<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors analyze morbidity and mortality data from China and South Korea by age and sex.\u00a0 Results showed a normal distribution in China with peak morbidity at ages 50-59, and a bimodal distribution in Korea with the highest peak morbidity at ages 20-29 and a second peak at ages 50-59. The study suggests that poor&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/02\/disparities-in-age-specific-morbidity-and-mortality-from-sars-cov-2-in-china-and-the-republic-of-korea\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-5612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5613,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions\/5613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5612"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}