{"id":840,"date":"2020-11-18T09:44:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T14:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=840"},"modified":"2020-11-18T09:44:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T14:44:47","slug":"who-is-more-less-likely-to-survive-covid-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=840","title":{"rendered":"Who is more\/less likely to survive COVID infection?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Question:\u00a0<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0The new acceleration in COVID cases has me worried.\u00a0 Would you please remind me of the data about those who do not survive it? Average age, pre-existing conditions, etc?
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Answer:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>The acceleration of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths across the country is deeply worrisome.\u00a0 You may feel a wee bit heartened to know that as the pandemic has progressed, patient outcomes have improved.\u00a0 In fact, case fatality rates (e.g. the proportion of deaths among cases) have dramatically declined.\u00a0 Nature<\/em>\u00a0had a great article\u00a0on this trend just last week, “Why do COVID death rates seem to be falling?<\/a>”\u00a0 Meanwhile, a couple of friends\/colleagues, Dr. YJ Choi<\/a> and Dr. David Bishai<\/a>, and I dug into CDC’s case surveillance data to understand how national case fatality rates have changed over time by age and race.\u00a0 Just yesterday, we published our results on medRxiv<\/a>\u00a0(a\u00a0preprint server for health sciences).\u00a0 Read on to learn more about our findings.\u00a0 In the meantime, know that case fatality increases with age, racial\/ethnic minority status, and underlying conditions<\/a>.\u00a0 If you’re curious to see the most recent (August) case fatality rates by age and race\/ethnicity, check out Figure 2<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Selected findings from our paper, “Deaths among COVID Cases in the United States: Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist<\/a>“<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. CFR has declined over time for all racial, ethnic and age groups (Figure 1)<\/strong>;<\/li>
  2. CFR disparities by race and ethnicity are narrowing;<\/li>
  3. CFR disparities by race and ethnicity persist:    
    • Whites consistently experience lower case fatality.<\/li>
    • Blacks generally experience higher case fatality among younger patients.<\/li>
    • Asians generally experience higher case fatality among older patients. <\/li>
    • High case fatality among Asians has been imperceptible in commonly reported mortality rates.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Figure 1.\u00a0Monthly age-specific case fatality rates across race\/ethnicity groups, March-August<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Figure 2. Most recent (August) case fatality rates by race and age<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Question:\u00a0\u00a0The new acceleration in COVID cases has me worried.\u00a0 Would you please remind me of the data about those who do not survive it? Average age, pre-existing conditions, etc? Answer:\u00a0The acceleration of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths across the country is deeply worrisome.\u00a0 You may feel a wee bit heartened to know that as the pandemic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,22,60],"tags":[105,86],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disease-severity","category-mortality","category-risk","tag-race","tag-underlying-conditions","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-3.png?fit=545%2C654&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}