{"id":9422,"date":"2021-04-26T10:01:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T17:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9422"},"modified":"2021-04-28T10:02:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T17:02:11","slug":"simulated-identification-of-silent-covid-19-infections-among-children-and-estimated-future-infection-rates-with-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/26\/simulated-identification-of-silent-covid-19-infections-among-children-and-estimated-future-infection-rates-with-vaccination\/","title":{"rendered":"Simulated Identification of Silent COVID-19 Infections Among Children and Estimated Future Infection Rates With Vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A modeling study determined that, in the absence of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines available to children, identifying 10-20% of \u201csilent\u201d or asymptomatic infections among children within 3 days after infection would reduce attack rates below 5% if only adults were vaccinated. Using an age-structured disease transmission model parameterized with census data, the study also found that if silent infections among children remained undetected, achieving the same attack rate would require a high vaccination coverage (\u226581%) of this age group in addition to vaccination of adults, which the authors deemed unrealistic.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moghadas et al.\u00a0(Apr 2021). Simulated Identification of Silent COVID-19 Infections Among Children and Estimated Future Infection Rates With Vaccination. JAMA Network Open. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2021.7097\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2021.7097<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A modeling study determined that, in the absence of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines available to children, identifying 10-20% of \u201csilent\u201d or asymptomatic infections among children within 3 days after infection would reduce attack rates below 5% if only adults were vaccinated. Using an age-structured disease transmission model parameterized with census data, the study also found that if&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/26\/simulated-identification-of-silent-covid-19-infections-among-children-and-estimated-future-infection-rates-with-vaccination\/\">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":[41,47],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-9422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-children","tag-modeling-prediction","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9422","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=9422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9423,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9422\/revisions\/9423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9422"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}