{"id":7581,"date":"2020-06-16T15:19:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T22:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7581"},"modified":"2021-03-25T15:19:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:19:58","slug":"age-dependent-effects-in-the-transmission-and-control-of-covid-19-epidemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/16\/age-dependent-effects-in-the-transmission-and-control-of-covid-19-epidemics\/","title":{"rendered":"Age-Dependent Effects in the Transmission and Control of COVID-19 Epidemics"},"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\">Davies et al. used mathematical modeling to estimate the age-specific susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection and the age-specific fraction of infections that are symptomatic. After fitting their model to data from 6 countries, they estimated that people under the age of 20 years are half as susceptible to infection as those over 20 years of age<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a079% of infections among adolescents (age 10-19) are asymptomatic<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and 31% of infections among people age 70 and older are asymptomatic.<\/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\">Davies et al. (June 1<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">6<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">, 2020). Age-Dependent Effects in the Transmission and Control of COVID-19 Epidemics.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Nature Medicine.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41591-020-0962-9\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41591-020-0962-9<\/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>Davies et al. used mathematical modeling to estimate the age-specific susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection and the age-specific fraction of infections that are symptomatic. After fitting their model to data from 6 countries, they estimated that people under the age of 20 years are half as susceptible to infection as those over 20 years of age,\u00a079%&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/16\/age-dependent-effects-in-the-transmission-and-control-of-covid-19-epidemics\/\">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":[23],"class_list":["post-7581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581","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=7581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7582,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581\/revisions\/7582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7581"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}