{"id":2340,"date":"2020-11-23T12:33:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T20:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2020-11-24T15:02:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T23:02:15","slug":"workers-at-long-term-care-facilities-and-their-risk-for-severe-covid-19-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/23\/workers-at-long-term-care-facilities-and-their-risk-for-severe-covid-19-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers at Long-Term Care Facilities and Their Risk for Severe COVID-19 Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>50% of long-term care workers (LTC) in the US are at increased risk of severe illness from COVID-19 due to age &gt;65, obesity, or medical co-morbidities based on data from the 2017 and 2018 National Health Interview Surveys and risk categories developed by the CDC. Severe illness was defined as hospitalization, intubation, or death. A greater proportion of LTC workers were Black, female and low income compared to the general population. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Greene and Gibson. (Nov 19, 2020). Workers at Long-Term Care Facilities and Their Risk for Severe COVID-19 Illness. Preventive Medicine. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ypmed.2020.106328\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ypmed.2020.106328<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50% of long-term care workers (LTC) in the US are at increased risk of severe illness from COVID-19 due to age &gt;65, obesity, or medical co-morbidities based on data from the 2017 and 2018 National Health Interview Surveys and risk categories developed by the CDC. Severe illness was defined as hospitalization, intubation, or death. A&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/23\/workers-at-long-term-care-facilities-and-their-risk-for-severe-covid-19-illness\/\">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":[54],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-health-care-setting","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","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=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions\/2341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}