{"id":7672,"date":"2021-03-25T11:24:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T18:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7672"},"modified":"2021-03-26T11:25:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T18:25:16","slug":"continued-proportional-age-shift-of-confirmed-positive-covid-19-incidence-over-time-to-children-and-young-adults-washington-state-march-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/25\/continued-proportional-age-shift-of-confirmed-positive-covid-19-incidence-over-time-to-children-and-young-adults-washington-state-march-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Continued Proportional Age Shift of Confirmed Positive COVID-19 Incidence over Time to Children and Young Adults: Washington State March\u2014August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The age distribution of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Washington State shifted from older age groups to young adults and children between March and August 2020, according to a longitudinal cohort analysis. From March to April, there was a 10% decline in cases among those age 60 years and older and a 20% increase among those age 0-19 and 20-39 years. By August, cases among people under 40 comprised an average of 60% of total cases, with ages 0-19 accounting for 19% of cases and ages 20-39 accounting for 42% of cases. Test positivity during this time shifted towards younger age groups despite less testing in these age groups and expanded testing among older age groups.<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> [EDITORIAL NOTE: A pre-print version of this manuscript was summarized in this report on November 17, 2020.]<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Malmgren et al.\u00a0(Mar 24, 2021). Continued Proportional Age Shift of Confirmed Positive COVID-19 Incidence over Time to Children and Young Adults: Washington State March\u2014August 2020. PLOS ONE. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0243042\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0243042<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The age distribution of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Washington State shifted from older age groups to young adults and children between March and August 2020, according to a longitudinal cohort analysis. From March to April, there was a 10% decline in cases among those age 60 years and older and a 20% increase among those&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/25\/continued-proportional-age-shift-of-confirmed-positive-covid-19-incidence-over-time-to-children-and-young-adults-washington-state-march-august-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":[29,68],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-7672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","tag-washington","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672","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=7672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7673,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672\/revisions\/7673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7672"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}