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ArticleEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2020

Temporal rise in the proportion of younger adults and older adolescents among coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases following the introduction of physical distancing measures, Germany, March to April 2020.

Edward Goldstein, Marc Lipsitch

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Article in Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 30 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Edward GoldsteinCenter for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States.
Marc LipsitchCenter for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States.

Funding

Understanding and controlling antibiotic resistanceU54GM088558 · NIGMS · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI HANAGE, WILLIAM · 2009 to 2018
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NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM088558
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Using data on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in Germany from the Robert Koch Institute, we found a relative increase with time in the prevalence in 15-34 year-olds (particularly 20-24-year-olds) compared with 35-49- and 10-14-year-olds (we excluded older and younger ages because of different healthcare seeking behaviour). This suggests an elevated role for that age group in propagating the epidemic following the introduction of physical distancing measures.

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CoronavirusPandemicsAdolescentAdultAge DistributionBetacoronavirusChildCommunicable Disease ControlCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Disease OutbreaksGermanyHumansMiddle AgedPneumonia, ViralPrevalenceage groupsCOVID-19older adolescentsyounger adults

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PMID32372753
PMCPMC7201953

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