Clinics in Mother and Child Health

Department of Pediatrics, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Publications

• Short Communication   
  An Epidemiological Study of COVID-19 in Adolescents, Youth, and Older Adults in Six US States Prior to Vaccine Availability
  Author(s): Barbara Rumain*, Moshe Schneiderman and Allan Geliebter
  
  A number of studies in Europe and China have reported that adolescents were considerably less susceptible to COVID-19 than older adults. In the summer 2020, before vaccines were available, we examined data from Department of Health websites in the six states, that had experienced a surge of cases, to assess prevalence of COVID-19 s, in adolescents and youth as compared to older adults. We also looked at two other measures related to prevalence: 1) the relation to expected cases, the (percentage of cases observed in a given age group divided by percentage of cases expected based on population demographics); and 2) the percentage deviation, or (% observed—% expected)/ % expected. We found that prevalence of COVID-19 for adolescents and for youth was significantly greater than for older adults (p<.00001), as was percentage observed ÷ percentage expected (p<.005). The p.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2090-7214.21.18.385

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