{"id":5810,"date":"2021-03-04T21:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5810"},"modified":"2021-03-04T21:00:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T05:00:41","slug":"estimated-sars-cov-2-seroprevalence-among-persons-aged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/04\/estimated-sars-cov-2-seroprevalence-among-persons-aged\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimated SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence Among Persons Aged <18 Years \u2014 Mississippi, May\u2013September 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A retrospective seroprevalence study among children and adolescents &lt;18 years of age in Mississippi suggests that cumulative incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection may be more than 10-times higher than reported cases. 11% of 1,603 serum specimens collected for routine clinical testing from persons aged &lt;18 years during May to September 2020 tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, suggesting a population-weighted prevalence of 16%, which would correspond to 113,842 cases among young persons by mid-September. In contrast, only 8,993 confirmed or probable COVID-19 cases among young persons had been reported to the state Department of Health by August 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Hobbs et al.\u00a0(Mar 5, 2021). Estimated SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence Among Persons Aged &lt;18 Years \u2014 Mississippi, May\u2013September 2020. MMWR. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7009a4\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7009a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retrospective seroprevalence study among children and adolescents &lt;18 years of age in Mississippi suggests that cumulative incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection may be more than 10-times higher than reported cases. 11% of 1,603 serum specimens collected for routine clinical testing from persons aged &lt;18 years during May to September 2020 tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/04\/estimated-sars-cov-2-seroprevalence-among-persons-aged\/\">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":[16],"class_list":["post-5810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810","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=5810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5811,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810\/revisions\/5811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5810"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}