{"id":38987,"date":"2020-10-14T07:26:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T07:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=38987"},"modified":"2020-10-19T17:04:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T17:04:18","slug":"covid-19-deaths-in-children-and-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/38987","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 deaths in children and people <21 years old in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"HTBsubhead3authorcredit\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/COVID-19-graphic.png\" width=\"231\" height=\"142\" \/>Simon Collins, HIV i-Base<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Although children have lower risks from COVID-19, serious cases have been reported and a new paper reviews associated deaths in the US from February to July 2020.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">This included <\/span>121 SARS-CoV-2\u2013associated deaths: 12 (10%) were infants and 85 (70%) were aged 10\u201320 years. Hispanic, non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic American Indian\/Alaskan Native persons accounted for a disproportionate number of deaths (78%) and 33% of deaths occurred outside of a hospital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Of these, 30 (25%) were previously healthy, 91 (75%) had at least one underlying medical conditions, and 54 (45%) had two or more. The most frequently reported medical conditions were chronic lung disease, including asthma (28%), obesity (27%), neurologic and developmental conditions (22%), and cardiovascular conditions (18%).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"HTBBODYtext\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">People under 21 make up 26% of the US population, and although cases might be under-reported in this paper, this was <\/span>0.08% of the 190,000 overall COVID-19-related deaths during the same period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"HTBreference-noindent\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Reference<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"HTBreference-noindent\">Bixler D et al. SARS-CoV-2\u2013associated Deaths among persons aged &lt;21 years \u2014 United States, February 12\u2013July 31, 2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. ePub: 15 September 2020. DOI:\u00a010.15585\/mmwr.mm6937e4<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6937e4.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6937e4.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This report was first published on 16 September 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Collins, HIV i-Base Although children have lower risks from COVID-19, serious cases have been reported and a new paper reviews associated deaths in the US from February to July 2020. This included 121 SARS-CoV-2\u2013associated deaths: 12 (10%) were infants &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[293,278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19-paediatrics","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}