{"id":433,"date":"2023-01-31T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=433"},"modified":"2023-09-11T18:44:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T22:44:07","slug":"covid-19-is-a-leading-cause-of-death-in-children-and-young-people-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-is-a-leading-cause-of-death-in-children-and-young-people-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 is a leading cause of death in children and young people in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>For the one-year period August&nbsp;1, 2021, to July&nbsp;31, 2022, COVID-19 was a leading cause of death in children and young people in the United States, ranking eighth overall.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The researchers believe that vaccines and nonpharmaceutical interventions are needed to limit transmission of SARS-CoV-2, and mitigate severe disease.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"research-citation\">Flaxman S, Whittaker C, Semenova E, et al. Assessment of COVID-19 as the Underlying Cause of Death Among Children and Young People Aged 0 to 19 Years in the US. <i>JAMA Netw Open.<\/i> 2023;6(1):e2253590. DOI:&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2022.53590\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2022.53590<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>For the one-year period August&nbsp;1, 2021, to July&nbsp;31, 2022, COVID-19 was a leading cause of death in children and young people in the United States, ranking eighth overall.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The researchers believe that vaccines and nonpharmaceutical interventions are needed to limit transmission of SARS-CoV-2, and mitigate severe disease.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-is-a-leading-cause-of-death-in-children-and-young-people-in-the-us\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID-19 is a leading cause of death in children and young people in the US<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,152,26,18,150,151,16,8,14,51,153],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-adolescents","tag-cause-of-death","tag-children","tag-covid-19","tag-deaths","tag-mortality-rate","tag-public-health","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-states","tag-university-of-oxford","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}