{"id":1290,"date":"2020-10-01T09:32:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2020-10-02T09:33:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T16:33:40","slug":"widening-the-gap-greater-racial-and-ethnic-disparities-in-covid-19-burden-after-accounting-for-missing-race-ethnicity-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/01\/widening-the-gap-greater-racial-and-ethnic-disparities-in-covid-19-burden-after-accounting-for-missing-race-ethnicity-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Widening the Gap Greater Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Burden after Accounting for Missing Race\/ethnicity Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>[Preprint, not peer-reviewed] Among 19,637 cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection reported in Fulton County, Georgia from February 29<sup>th<\/sup> to August 19<sup>th<\/sup> 2020, 36% were missing race\/ethnicity information in the case report. Compared to complete case analyses, imputation and bias-adjustment for race\/ethnicity yielded higher estimates of infection rates (1.5 to 1.8-fold increase). The magnitude of the absolute disparity increased in the bias-adjusted analysis relative to the complete case analysis (1.3-fold among classified Black and 1.6-fold among classified Hispanic vs. classified white). The authors conclude that complete case analyses may underestimate absolute disparities in infection rates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Labgold et al. (Sept 30, 2020). Widening the Gap Greater Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Burden after Accounting for Missing Race\/ethnicity Data. Preprint downloaded Oct 1 from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.09.30.20203315\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.09.30.20203315<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Preprint, not peer-reviewed] Among 19,637 cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection reported in Fulton County, Georgia from February 29th to August 19th 2020, 36% were missing race\/ethnicity information in the case report. Compared to complete case analyses, imputation and bias-adjustment for race\/ethnicity yielded higher estimates of infection rates (1.5 to 1.8-fold increase). The magnitude of the absolute&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/01\/widening-the-gap-greater-racial-and-ethnic-disparities-in-covid-19-burden-after-accounting-for-missing-race-ethnicity-data\/\">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],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-disparities","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","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=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}