{"id":6449,"date":"2021-03-11T21:02:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T05:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6449"},"modified":"2021-03-11T21:02:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T05:02:09","slug":"prevalence-of-covid-19-in-adolescents-and-youth-compared-with-older-adults-in-states-experiencing-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/11\/prevalence-of-covid-19-in-adolescents-and-youth-compared-with-older-adults-in-states-experiencing-surges\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevalence of COVID-19 in Adolescents and Youth Compared with Older Adults in States Experiencing Surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>COVID-19 prevalence was higher in adolescents (10-19 years) and youth (15-24 years) compared to older adults (&gt;65 years old) in six US states that experienced a surge in cases during Summer 2020, according to data from Departments of Health. Observed COVID-19 prevalence among adolescents and youth in 4 of the 6 states were disproportionately higher than expected based on state population age demographics (as high as 150% in Florida). This period coincided with when lockdown restrictions were being eased in these states.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Rumain et al.\u00a0(Mar 10, 2021). Prevalence of COVID-19 in Adolescents and Youth Compared with Older Adults in States Experiencing Surges. PLOS ONE. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0242587\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0242587<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 prevalence was higher in adolescents (10-19 years) and youth (15-24 years) compared to older adults (&gt;65 years old) in six US states that experienced a surge in cases during Summer 2020, according to data from Departments of Health. Observed COVID-19 prevalence among adolescents and youth in 4 of the 6 states were disproportionately higher&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/11\/prevalence-of-covid-19-in-adolescents-and-youth-compared-with-older-adults-in-states-experiencing-surges\/\">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":[41,29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-6449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-children","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449","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=6449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6450,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions\/6450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6449"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}