{"id":2541,"date":"2020-12-03T08:42:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T16:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2020-12-04T08:44:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T16:44:13","slug":"multidisciplinary-community-based-investigation-of-a-covid-19-outbreak-among-marshallese-and-hispanic-latino-communities-benton-and-washington-counties-arkansas-march-june-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/03\/multidisciplinary-community-based-investigation-of-a-covid-19-outbreak-among-marshallese-and-hispanic-latino-communities-benton-and-washington-counties-arkansas-march-june-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Multidisciplinary Community-Based Investigation of a COVID-19 Outbreak Among Marshallese and Hispanic\/Latino Communities \u2014 Benton and Washington Counties, Arkansas, March\u2013June 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>An Arkansas Department of Health report from June 2020 reported that Marshallese and Hispanic or Latino (Hispanic) persons in Benton and Washington counties accounted for 64% of COVID-19 cases and 57% of associated deaths despite representing approximately 19% of the population. Focus group discussions and key-informant interviews revealed lack of relevant health communications, limited coordination between stakeholders, mistrust of the medical system, financial need to work, and household density as drivers of disparities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Center et al. (Dec 4, 2020). Multidisciplinary Community-Based Investigation of a COVID-19 Outbreak Among Marshallese and Hispanic\/Latino Communities \u2014 Benton and Washington Counties, Arkansas, March\u2013June 2020. MMWR. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6948a2\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6948a2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Arkansas Department of Health report from June 2020 reported that Marshallese and Hispanic or Latino (Hispanic) persons in Benton and Washington counties accounted for 64% of COVID-19 cases and 57% of associated deaths despite representing approximately 19% of the population. Focus group discussions and key-informant interviews revealed lack of relevant health communications, limited coordination&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/03\/multidisciplinary-community-based-investigation-of-a-covid-19-outbreak-among-marshallese-and-hispanic-latino-communities-benton-and-washington-counties-arkansas-march-june-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":[42],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-2541","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\/2541","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=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}