{"id":6949,"date":"2020-04-10T14:30:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T18:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4886"},"modified":"2020-04-10T14:30:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T18:30:19","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-persons-who-had-a-cold-in-the-past-2-weeks-by-age-group-and-calendar-quarter-national-health-interview-survey-united-states-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/04\/10\/6949\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Persons Who Had a Cold in the Past 2 Weeks, by Age Group and Calendar Quarter \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6914a5.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6914a5-F.gif\" width=\"447\" height=\"377\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the percentage of persons of all ages who had a cold during the past 2 weeks was 16.6% in January\u2013March, 8.5% in April\u2013June, 7.0% in July\u2013September, and 13.7% in October\u2013December.<\/p>\n<p>Across all calendar quarters, colds were more common in younger persons than in older persons.<\/p>\n<p>A higher percentage of persons in each age group had colds in the past 2 weeks in January\u2013March and October\u2013December than had colds in April\u2013June or July\u2013September 2018.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> National Health Interview Survey, 2018 data. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6914a5.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6914a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, the percentage of persons of all ages who had a cold during the past 2 weeks was 16.6% in January\u2013March, 8.5% in April\u2013June, 7.0% in July\u2013September, and 13.7% in October\u2013December. Across all calendar quarters, colds were more common in younger persons than in older persons. A higher percentage of persons in each age<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}