{"id":2414,"date":"2020-11-25T10:11:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T18:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2020-11-30T10:15:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T18:15:36","slug":"isaggregating-asian-race-reveals-covid-19-disparities-among-asian-americans-at-new-york-citys-public-hospital-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/25\/isaggregating-asian-race-reveals-covid-19-disparities-among-asian-americans-at-new-york-citys-public-hospital-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaggregating Asian Race Reveals COVID-19 Disparities among Asian Americans at New York City\u2019s Public Hospital System"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>[Pre-print; not peer-reviewed] A retrospective analysis of 85,328 patients tested for COVID-19 at New York City&#8217;s public hospital system between March and May of 2020 found that among Asian American patients, South Asian patients had the highest rates of SARS-CoV-2 positivity. Patients of South Asian descent also had higher rates of comorbid conditions such as hypertension (26%), obesity (14%; BMI &gt; 30), diabetes (231%), and heart disease (22%) than other Asian ethnic groups. Patients of Chinese descent had the highest mortality rate of all Asian ethnic groups and were nearly 1.5-times more likely to die than white patients (OR=1.44). The authors suggest that disaggregating race data could help address disparities in infection and mortality risks among Asian Americans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Marcello et al. (Nov 24, 2020). Disaggregating Asian Race Reveals COVID-19 Disparities among Asian Americans at New York City\u2019s Public Hospital System. Pre-print downloaded Nov. 25 from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.11.23.20233155\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.11.23.20233155<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print; not peer-reviewed] A retrospective analysis of 85,328 patients tested for COVID-19 at New York City&#8217;s public hospital system between March and May of 2020 found that among Asian American patients, South Asian patients had the highest rates of SARS-CoV-2 positivity. Patients of South Asian descent also had higher rates of comorbid conditions such as&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/25\/isaggregating-asian-race-reveals-covid-19-disparities-among-asian-americans-at-new-york-citys-public-hospital-system\/\">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-2414","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\/2414","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=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2418,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions\/2418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}