{"id":1062,"date":"2020-09-22T12:03:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T19:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2020-09-23T12:06:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T19:06:22","slug":"racial-and-ethnic-disparities-in-covid%e2%80%9019-infections-and-deaths-across-u-s-nursing-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/22\/racial-and-ethnic-disparities-in-covid%e2%80%9019-infections-and-deaths-across-u-s-nursing-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID\u201019 Infections and Deaths across U.S. Nursing Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A national study of 12,576 nursing homes indicated that nursing homes caring for disproportionately more racial\/ethnic minority residents tended to have more new COVID-19 confirmed cases among their residents and staff and more new COVID-19 related deaths among residents. The number of weekly new COVID-19 confirmed cases among residents increased with higher nursing home proportion of racial\/ethnic minorities, from an average of 0.4 cases per facility (SD=2.5) for the low-proportion group (93% of which had zero new case) to 1.5 cases per facility (SD=6.3) for the highest-proportion group (79% had zero new case). In addition, the authors found no substantial disparities in self-reported shortages of staff or PPE.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Li et al. (Sept 21, 2020). Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID\u201019 Infections and Deaths across U.S. Nursing Homes. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/jgs.16847\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/jgs.16847<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A national study of 12,576 nursing homes indicated that nursing homes caring for disproportionately more racial\/ethnic minority residents tended to have more new COVID-19 confirmed cases among their residents and staff and more new COVID-19 related deaths among residents. The number of weekly new COVID-19 confirmed cases among residents increased with higher nursing home proportion&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/22\/racial-and-ethnic-disparities-in-covid%e2%80%9019-infections-and-deaths-across-u-s-nursing-homes\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42,54],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-disparities","tag-health-care-setting","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}