{"id":1775,"date":"2020-10-23T10:14:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T17:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2020-10-26T10:15:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T17:15:22","slug":"association-between-social-vulnerability-and-a-countys-risk-for-becoming-a-covid-19-hotspot-united-states-june-1-july-25-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/23\/association-between-social-vulnerability-and-a-countys-risk-for-becoming-a-covid-19-hotspot-united-states-june-1-july-25-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Association Between Social Vulnerability and a County\u2019s Risk for Becoming a COVID-19 Hotspot \u2014 United States, June 1\u2013July 25, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Counties with greater social vulnerability were more likely to become areas with rapidly increasing COVID-19 incidence (\u201chotspot counties\u201d), according to a report from the CDC. Counties with higher percentages of racial and ethnic minority residents (RR=5.3) and people living in high-density housing structures and crowded units (RR=3.1 and RR=2.0), were more likely to become hotspots, especially in less urban areas. Among such hotspot counties, those with greater social vulnerability also had higher incidence of COVID-19 during the 14 days after meeting the hotspot designation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dasgupta et al. (Oct 23, 2020). Association Between Social Vulnerability and a County\u2019s Risk for Becoming a COVID-19 Hotspot \u2014 United States, June 1\u2013July 25, 2020. MMWR. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6942a3\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6942a3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counties with greater social vulnerability were more likely to become areas with rapidly increasing COVID-19 incidence (\u201chotspot counties\u201d), according to a report from the CDC. Counties with higher percentages of racial and ethnic minority residents (RR=5.3) and people living in high-density housing structures and crowded units (RR=3.1 and RR=2.0), were more likely to become hotspots,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/23\/association-between-social-vulnerability-and-a-countys-risk-for-becoming-a-covid-19-hotspot-united-states-june-1-july-25-2020\/\">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-1775","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\/1775","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=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1776,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions\/1776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}