{"id":16664,"date":"2020-03-31T06:30:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T21:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/30\/new-coronavirus-study-reveals-increased-risks-from-middle-age"},"modified":"2020-03-31T06:30:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T21:30:34","slug":"new-coronavirus-study-reveals-increased-risks-from-middle-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16664","title":{"rendered":"New coronavirus study reveals increased risks from middle age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First comprehensive study of deaths and hospitalisations in mainland China shows just how much of a factor age is <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first comprehensive study of Covid-19 deaths and hospitalisations in mainland China has revealed in stark detail the increase in risk for coronavirus patients once they reach middle age.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis found that while the overall death rate for confirmed cases was 1.38%, the rate rose sharply with age \u2013 from 0.0016% in the under 10s, to 7.8% in 80s and over.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/30\/new-coronavirus-study-reveals-increased-risks-from-middle-age\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First comprehensive study of deaths and hospitalisations in mainland China shows just how much of a factor age is Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe first comprehensive study of Covid-19 deaths and hospitalisations in mainl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1069,346,914,512,916,299,79,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-society","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16665,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16664\/revisions\/16665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}