{"id":935,"date":"2020-09-15T19:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T02:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=935"},"modified":"2020-09-15T19:00:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T02:00:23","slug":"sars-cov-2-associated-deaths-among-persons-aged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/15\/sars-cov-2-associated-deaths-among-persons-aged\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2\u2013Associated Deaths Among Persons Aged <21 Years \u2014 United States, February 12\u2013July 31, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A total of 121 SARS-CoV-2-associated deaths among people younger than 21 years of age had been reported to the CDC by July 31, 2020, accounting for 0.08% of all deaths due to COVID-19. Of these 121 deaths, 70% of were among those 10-20 years old and 10% were among infants. 78% of deaths were among members of racial and ethnic minority groups, and 33% of deaths occurred outside of a hospital. The authors conclude that these results imply the need for ongoing surveillance for infants, children, and adolescents as schools reopen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bixler et al. (Sept 15, 2020). SARS-CoV-2\u2013Associated Deaths Among Persons Aged &lt;21 Years \u2014 United States, February 12\u2013July 31, 2020. MMWR. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6937e4\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6937e4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 121 SARS-CoV-2-associated deaths among people younger than 21 years of age had been reported to the CDC by July 31, 2020, accounting for 0.08% of all deaths due to COVID-19. Of these 121 deaths, 70% of were among those 10-20 years old and 10% were among infants. 78% of deaths were among&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/15\/sars-cov-2-associated-deaths-among-persons-aged\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}