{"id":7573,"date":"2020-06-16T15:15:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T22:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7573"},"modified":"2021-03-25T15:16:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:16:25","slug":"age-related-morbidity-and-mortality-among-patients-with-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/16\/age-related-morbidity-and-mortality-among-patients-with-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Age Related Morbidity and Mortality among Patients with COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kang and Jung provide a narrative review of global epidemiological data on age-associated SARS-CoV-2 pathogenicity, morbidity<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and mortality, with a focus on SARS-CoV-2 in children and the elderly.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">They review\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">theories for the higher mortality observed in<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0elderly people with COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">related to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">immune function and prevalence of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">comorbidities.<\/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\">Kang and Jung. (June 12, 2020). Age Related Morbidity and Mortality among Patients with COVID-19. Infection &amp; Chemotherapy.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/pc.icjournal.org\/DOIx.php?id=10.3947\/ic.2020.52.e32\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/pc.icjournal.org\/DOIx.php?id=10.3947\/ic.2020.52.e32<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&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>Kang and Jung provide a narrative review of global epidemiological data on age-associated SARS-CoV-2 pathogenicity, morbidity,\u00a0and mortality, with a focus on SARS-CoV-2 in children and the elderly.\u00a0They review\u00a0theories for the higher mortality observed in\u00a0elderly people with COVID-19\u00a0related to\u00a0immune function and prevalence of\u00a0comorbidities.\u00a0 Kang and Jung. (June 12, 2020). Age Related Morbidity and Mortality among Patients&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/16\/age-related-morbidity-and-mortality-among-patients-with-covid-19\/\">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":[20],"class_list":["post-7573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573","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=7573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7574,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573\/revisions\/7574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7573"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}