{"id":1707,"date":"2020-10-21T12:39:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T19:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2020-10-22T12:41:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T19:41:49","slug":"variation-in-racial-ethnic-disparities-in-covid-19-mortality-by-age-in-the-united-states-a-cross-sectional-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/21\/variation-in-racial-ethnic-disparities-in-covid-19-mortality-by-age-in-the-united-states-a-cross-sectional-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Variation in Racial\/Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality by Age in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality rates are particularly strong among younger people. A cross-sectional study reported that as of July 22, 2020, the age-standardized COVID-19 mortality ratios (compared to non-Hispanic white) were 3.6 for people who are non-Hispanic Black, 2.2 for those who are non-Hispanic American Indian\/Alaska Native, 2.2 for Hispanic people and 1.6 for non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islanders. These racial\/ethnic disparities were even more pronounced in younger people (25-54 years old).<\/p>\n<p><i>Bassett et al. (Oct 20, 2020). Variation in Racial\/Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality by Age in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Study. PLOS Medicine. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pmed.1003402\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pmed.1003402<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality rates are particularly strong among younger people. A cross-sectional study reported that as of July 22, 2020, the age-standardized COVID-19 mortality ratios (compared to non-Hispanic white) were 3.6 for people who are non-Hispanic Black, 2.2 for those who are non-Hispanic American Indian\/Alaska Native, 2.2 for Hispanic people and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/21\/variation-in-racial-ethnic-disparities-in-covid-19-mortality-by-age-in-the-united-states-a-cross-sectional-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42,63,29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-disparities","tag-mortality","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1708,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}