{"id":8447,"date":"2020-07-23T16:43:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T23:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8447"},"modified":"2021-04-02T16:43:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T23:43:57","slug":"the-contribution-of-the-age-distribution-of-cases-to-covid-19-case-fatality-across-countries-a-9-country-demographic-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/23\/the-contribution-of-the-age-distribution-of-cases-to-covid-19-case-fatality-across-countries-a-9-country-demographic-study\/","title":{"rendered":"The Contribution of the Age Distribution of Cases to COVID-19 Case Fatality Across Countries: A 9-Country Demographic 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\">In a cross-sectional study using population-based data on COVID-19 cases and deaths in 9 countries, Sudharsanan et al. observed an overall large variation in<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">case-fatality. The highest case-fatality was reported in Italy (9.3%), and the lowest in Germany (0.7%). Adjustment for the age distribution of cases explains 66% of the between-country variation. The resulting age-standardized median case fatality was 1.9%.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The authors conclude that it is important to focus on age-adjusted case fatality when comparing performance in caring for patients with COVID-19 and for monitoring the epidemic over time.<\/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\">Sudharsanan et al. (July 22, 2020). The Contribution of the Age Distribution of Cases to COVID-19 Case Fatality Across Countries: A 9-Country Demographic Study. Annals of Internal Medicine.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acpjournals.org\/doi\/10.7326\/m20-2973\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/www.acpjournals.org\/doi\/10.7326\/m20-2973<\/span><\/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>In a cross-sectional study using population-based data on COVID-19 cases and deaths in 9 countries, Sudharsanan et al. observed an overall large variation in\u00a0case-fatality. The highest case-fatality was reported in Italy (9.3%), and the lowest in Germany (0.7%). Adjustment for the age distribution of cases explains 66% of the between-country variation. The resulting age-standardized median&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/23\/the-contribution-of-the-age-distribution-of-cases-to-covid-19-case-fatality-across-countries-a-9-country-demographic-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":[20],"class_list":["post-8447","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\/8447","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=8447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8448,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8447\/revisions\/8448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8447"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}