{"id":7114,"date":"2020-05-26T16:53:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T23:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7114"},"modified":"2021-03-19T16:58:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T23:58:50","slug":"covid-19-confirmed-case-incidence-age-shift-to-young-persons-age-0-19-and-20-39-years-over-time-washington-state-march-april-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/26\/covid-19-confirmed-case-incidence-age-shift-to-young-persons-age-0-19-and-20-39-years-over-time-washington-state-march-april-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Confirmed Case Incidence Age Shift to Young Persons Age 0-19 and 20-39 Years Over Time Washington State March &#8211; April 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"36\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">pre-print, not peer reviewed<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A longitudinal cohort study\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">found that from March 1 to April 19, 2020, the age distribution of confirmed COVID-19<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0cases in Washington State<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0shifted, with a 10% decline in cases 60 years or older and a 20% increase in cases 0-39 years old.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">After the peak (March 22), there was no decline among cases 0-19 years old, and the decline among\u00a0ages\u00a020-39 was less than older age groups. A targeted approach for awareness and safety measures is advisable as states and counties enter phased re-opening lead to an increase in non-essential work and social activities.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Malmgren et al. (May 23, 2020). COVID-19 Confirmed Case Incidence Age Shift to Young Persons Age 0-19 and 20-39 Years Over Time Washington State March &#8211; April 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pre-print\u00a0downloaded May 26 from<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.21.20109389\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.21.20109389<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0A longitudinal cohort study\u00a0found that from March 1 to April 19, 2020, the age distribution of confirmed COVID-19\u00a0cases in Washington State\u00a0shifted, with a 10% decline in cases 60 years or older and a 20% increase in cases 0-39 years old.\u00a0After the peak (March 22), there was no decline among cases 0-19 years&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/26\/covid-19-confirmed-case-incidence-age-shift-to-young-persons-age-0-19-and-20-39-years-over-time-washington-state-march-april-2020\/\">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":[16],"class_list":["post-7114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114","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=7114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7115,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114\/revisions\/7115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7114"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}