{"id":2035,"date":"2021-08-13T15:35:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T15:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2021-08-13T15:35:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T15:35:04","slug":"risk-for-covid-19-infection-hospitalization-and-death-by-age-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=2035","title":{"rendered":"Risk for COVID-19 Infection, Hospitalization, and Death By Age Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authors: CDC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rate ratios compared to 18- to 29-year-olds<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/covid-data\/investigations-discovery\/hospitalization-death-by-age.html#footnote01\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>0-4 years&nbsp;old<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>5-17 years&nbsp;old<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>18-29 years&nbsp;old<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>30-39 years&nbsp;old<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>40-49 years&nbsp;old<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>50-64 years&nbsp;old<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>65-74 years&nbsp;old<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>75-84 years&nbsp;old<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>85+ years&nbsp;old<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Cases<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/covid-data\/investigations-discovery\/hospitalization-death-by-age.html#footnote02\">2<\/a><\/sup><\/strong><\/td><td>&lt;1x<\/td><td>1x<\/td><td>Reference group<\/td><td>1x<\/td><td>1x<\/td><td>1x<\/td><td>1x<\/td><td>1x<\/td><td>1x<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Hospitalization<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/covid-data\/investigations-discovery\/hospitalization-death-by-age.html#footnote03\">3<\/a><\/sup><\/strong><\/td><td>&lt;1x<\/td><td>&lt;1x<\/td><td>Reference group<\/td><td>2x<\/td><td>2x<\/td><td>4x<\/td><td>6x<\/td><td>9x<\/td><td>15x<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Death<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/covid-data\/investigations-discovery\/hospitalization-death-by-age.html#footnote04\">4<\/a><\/sup><\/strong><\/td><td>&lt;1x<\/td><td>&lt;1x<\/td><td>Reference group<\/td><td>4x<\/td><td>10x<\/td><td>35x<\/td><td>95x<\/td><td>230x<\/td><td>600x<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">All rates are relative to the 18- to 29-year-old age category. This group was selected as the reference group because it has accounted for the largest cumulative number of COVID-19 cases compared to other age groups. Sample interpretation: Compared with 18- to 29-year-olds, the rate of death is four times higher in 30- to 39-year-olds, and 600 times higher in those who are 85 years and older. (In the table, a rate of 1x indicates no difference compared to the 18- to 29-year-old age category.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">For More Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/covid-data\/investigations-discovery\/hospitalization-death-by-age.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/covid-data\/investigations-discovery\/hospitalization-death-by-age.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: CDC Rate ratios compared to 18- to 29-year-olds1 &nbsp; 0-4 years&nbsp;old 5-17 years&nbsp;old 18-29 years&nbsp;old 30-39 years&nbsp;old 40-49 years&nbsp;old 50-64 years&nbsp;old 65-74 years&nbsp;old 75-84 years&nbsp;old 85+ years&nbsp;old Cases2 &lt;1x [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670,101,222,332],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age-related-outcome","category-covid-19","category-hospitalizations","category-mortality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}