{"id":2385,"date":"2020-11-24T12:52:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T20:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2020-11-25T12:53:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T20:53:54","slug":"socio-economic-status-and-covid-19-related-cases-and-fatalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/24\/socio-economic-status-and-covid-19-related-cases-and-fatalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Socio-Economic Status and COVID-19\u2013Related Cases and Fatalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of US county-level COVID-19 data and a Distressed Communities Index (DCI) score (n=3,127 counties) found that severely distress counties (DCI score &gt;75) had a small total number of COVID-19 deaths but more deaths per capita. Socio-economic determinants of health most associated with higher per capita cases and fatalities were the percentage of adults without a high school degree and proportion of Black residents. The percentage of the population aged older than 65 years was also strongly associated with higher per capita fatalities.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Hawkins et al. (Oct 17, 2020). Socio-Economic Status and COVID-19\u2013Related Cases and Fatalities. Public Health. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.puhe.2020.09.016\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.puhe.2020.09.016<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of US county-level COVID-19 data and a Distressed Communities Index (DCI) score (n=3,127 counties) found that severely distress counties (DCI score &gt;75) had a small total number of COVID-19 deaths but more deaths per capita. Socio-economic determinants of health most associated with higher per capita cases and fatalities were the percentage of adults&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/24\/socio-economic-status-and-covid-19-related-cases-and-fatalities\/\">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],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-2385","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\/2385","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=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2386,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions\/2386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}