Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

February 17, 2021

Characteristics and Factors Associated with COVID-19 Infection, Hospitalization, and Mortality Across Race and Ethnicity

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[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A retrospective cohort study of 570,298 patients tested for SARS-CoV-2 with known race/ethnicity, found that people from racial/ethnic minority groups represented 50% of infections but only 18% of total tests. The data were drawn from a large health system spanning California, Oregon, and Washington between March 1 and December 31, 2020. People who identified as Hispanic represented 34% of total infections but only 13% of tests. 8,536 patients were hospitalized and 1,246 died, of whom 56% and 54% were non-white, respectively. Hispanic race/ethnicity was also associated with in-hospital mortality (OR=1.4).

Dai et al. (Feb 2021). Characteristics and Factors Associated with COVID-19 Infection, Hospitalization, and Mortality Across Race and Ethnicity. Pre-print downloaded Feb 17 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.14.20212803