This Week in MMWR - Vol. 69, October 23, 2020

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Reports on COVID-19 Among MLB Players, Vaccination Coverage, and more.

October 23, 2020 

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	Mitigating a COVID-19 Outbreak Among Major League Baseball Players — United States, 2020 During the 2020 season, Major League Baseball instituted a multilayered COVID-19 strategy. In an outbreak among 20 baseball players and staff members on a single team, no secondary transmission during field play between two opposing teams occurred.

• Vaccination Coverage by Age 24 Months Among Children Born in 2016 and 2017 — National Immunization Survey-Child, United States, 2017–2019
• Valley Fever (Coccidioidomycosis) Awareness — California, 2016–2017
• Race, Ethnicity, and Age Trends in Persons Who Died from COVID-19 — United States, May–August 2020
• Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19, by Age and Race and Ethnicity — United States, January 26–October 3, 2020
• Risk for In-Hospital Complications Associated with COVID-19 and Influenza — Veterans Health Administration, United States, October 1, 2018–May 31, 2020
• Association Between Social Vulnerability and a County’s Risk for Becoming a COVID-19 Hotspot — United States, June 1–July 25, 2020
• First 100 Persons with COVID-19 — Zambia, March 18–April 28, 2020
• Rapid Adaptation of HIV Treatment Programs in Response to COVID-19 — Namibia, 2020
• Notes from the Field: Characteristics of E-cigarette, or Vaping, Products Confiscated in Public High Schools in California and North Carolina —March and May 2019

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Percentage of Adults Aged ≥20 Years Who Used Antidepressant Medications in the Past 30 Days, by Sex and Marital Status — National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, United States, 2015–2018

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This week, MMWR published four reports. Two looked at COVID-19 among young adults. These include a report about factors influencing the risk of exposure to COVID-19 among young adults in a Wisconsin county, and one about how younger adults may be spreading the virus to older people. A third report describes a COVID-19 outbreak after a recreational hockey game in Florida. The fourth report looked at hand hygiene experiences and beliefs among adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.