{"id":7728,"date":"2020-06-22T12:08:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T19:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7728"},"modified":"2021-03-26T12:09:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T19:09:17","slug":"global-regional-and-national-estimates-of-the-population-at-increased-risk-of-severe-covid-19-due-to-underlying-health-conditions-in-2020-a-modelling-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/22\/global-regional-and-national-estimates-of-the-population-at-increased-risk-of-severe-covid-19-due-to-underlying-health-conditions-in-2020-a-modelling-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Global, Regional, and National Estimates of the Population at Increased Risk of Severe COVID-19 Due to Underlying Health Conditions in 2020: A Modelling Study"},"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\">Clark et al.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">used prevalence data from two large multi<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">morbidity studies and estimated that 1.7 billion (uncertainty interval (UI) 1.0\u20132.4) people<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0comprising<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a022% (UI 15\u201328) of the global population,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0have at least one underlying health condition that puts them at increased risk of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">severe\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0The increased risk was highest in countries with older populations, African countries with high HIV\/AIDS prevalence, and small island nations with high diabetes prevalence<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/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\">Clark et al. (June 15, 2020). Global, Regional, and National Estimates of the Population at Increased Risk of Severe COVID-19 Due to Underlying Health Conditions in 2020: A Modelling Study. The Lancet Global Health.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2214-109X(20)30264-3\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2214-109X(20)30264-3<\/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>Clark et al.\u00a0used prevalence data from two large multi&#8211;morbidity studies and estimated that 1.7 billion (uncertainty interval (UI) 1.0\u20132.4) people,\u00a0comprising\u00a022% (UI 15\u201328) of the global population,\u00a0have at least one underlying health condition that puts them at increased risk of\u00a0severe\u00a0COVID-19.\u00a0The increased risk was highest in countries with older populations, African countries with high HIV\/AIDS prevalence, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/22\/global-regional-and-national-estimates-of-the-population-at-increased-risk-of-severe-covid-19-due-to-underlying-health-conditions-in-2020-a-modelling-study\/\">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-7728","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\/7728","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=7728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7729,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7728\/revisions\/7729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7728"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}