{"id":524,"date":"2020-10-18T15:28:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T15:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/?p=524"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:26:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:26:42","slug":"aging-and-covid-19-mortality-what-do-we-currently-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/2020\/10\/18\/aging-and-covid-19-mortality-what-do-we-currently-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Aging and COVID-19 mortality: What do we currently know?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>COVID-19 is often portrayed as a &#8220;disease of the elderly,&#8221; but is this portrayal supported by the evidence? How does the risk of dying from COVID-19 vary by age? How does it compare with other causes of death? And how does the age pattern of COVID-19 mortality differ across countries? In <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.4054\/DemRes.2021.44.16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this study<\/a>&nbsp;I attempt to answer these questions and others about the relationship between COVID-19 mortality and age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*** Update (February 17, 2021): Now published in <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.4054\/DemRes.2021.44.16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Demographic Research<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"684\" src=\"http:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson1\/files\/2021\/01\/COVID-19.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/files\/2021\/01\/COVID-19.png 940w, https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/files\/2021\/01\/COVID-19-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/files\/2021\/01\/COVID-19-768x559.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Age-specific mortality rates of COVID-19 (2020) and Pneumonia &amp; Influenza (1999\u20132018), United States.&nbsp;<\/strong>Pneumonia &amp; Influenza mortality rates based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vital statistics, adjusted to the same calendar period as COVID-19 provisional mortality data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 is often portrayed as a &#8220;disease of the elderly,&#8221; but is this portrayal supported by the evidence? How does the risk of dying from COVID-19 vary by age? How does it compare with other causes of death? And how does the age pattern of COVID-19 mortality differ across countries? In this study&nbsp;I attempt to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/2020\/10\/18\/aging-and-covid-19-mortality-what-do-we-currently-know\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Aging and COVID-19 mortality: What do we currently know?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}