{"id":1105,"date":"2020-09-23T11:32:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T18:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2020-09-24T11:32:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T18:32:57","slug":"patterns-of-covid-19-testing-and-mortality-by-race-and-ethnicity-among-united-states-veterans-a-nationwide-cohort-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/23\/patterns-of-covid-19-testing-and-mortality-by-race-and-ethnicity-among-united-states-veterans-a-nationwide-cohort-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Patterns of COVID-19 Testing and Mortality by Race and Ethnicity among United States Veterans: A Nationwide Cohort Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A nationwide sample collected from February to July, 2020 showed that US veterans who were Black or Hispanic were more likely to be tested for SARS-CoV-2 than white veterans (Black: 60%, Hispanic: 53%, white 39%), and more likely to test positive (Black vs white: OR=1.9; Hispanic vs white: OR=1.8). The disparity between Black and white individuals in testing positive for COVID-19 was stronger in the Midwest (OR=2.7) than the West (OR=1.2). The disparity in testing positive for COVID-19 between Hispanic and white individuals was consistent across region, calendar time, and outbreak pattern.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rentsch et al. (Sept 22, 2020). Patterns of COVID-19 Testing and Mortality by Race and Ethnicity among United States Veterans: A Nationwide Cohort Study. PLoS Medicine. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pmed.1003379\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pmed.1003379<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nationwide sample collected from February to July, 2020 showed that US veterans who were Black or Hispanic were more likely to be tested for SARS-CoV-2 than white veterans (Black: 60%, Hispanic: 53%, white 39%), and more likely to test positive (Black vs white: OR=1.9; Hispanic vs white: OR=1.8). The disparity between Black and white&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/23\/patterns-of-covid-19-testing-and-mortality-by-race-and-ethnicity-among-united-states-veterans-a-nationwide-cohort-study\/\">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":[29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","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=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}