{"id":5647,"date":"2020-04-03T15:20:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T22:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5647"},"modified":"2021-03-03T15:21:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:21:29","slug":"monitoring-trends-and-differences-in-covid-19-case-fatality-rates-using-decomposition-methods-contributions-of-age-structure-and-age-specific-fatality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/03\/monitoring-trends-and-differences-in-covid-19-case-fatality-rates-using-decomposition-methods-contributions-of-age-structure-and-age-specific-fatality\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring trends and differences in COVID-19 case fatality rates using decomposition methods: Contributions of age structure and age-specific fatality."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors estimated population-level case fatality rates (CFR) for 7 countries (U.S. included) and New York City, and analyzed the age-structure of confirmed cases and the age-specific case-fatality. They report that the age-structure of cases likely reflects differences in testing regimes and transmission trajectories, and age-specific CFRs could indicate worsening health outcomes of those infected with COVID-19<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An accurate assessment of differences in CFRs across countries and over time are crucial to determine appropriate containment and mitigation interventions, such as social confinement and mobility restrictions.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dudel et al. (Mar 31, 2020). Monitoring trends and differences in COVID-19 case fatality rates using decomposition methods: Contributions of age structure and age-specific fatality. Pre-print downloaded Apr 3 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.31.20048397\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.31.20048397<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors estimated population-level case fatality rates (CFR) for 7 countries (U.S. included) and New York City, and analyzed the age-structure of confirmed cases and the age-specific case-fatality. They report that the age-structure of cases likely reflects differences in testing regimes and transmission trajectories, and age-specific CFRs could indicate worsening health outcomes of those infected&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/03\/monitoring-trends-and-differences-in-covid-19-case-fatality-rates-using-decomposition-methods-contributions-of-age-structure-and-age-specific-fatality\/\">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":[21],"class_list":["post-5647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647","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=5647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5648,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647\/revisions\/5648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5647"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}