{"id":2545,"date":"2020-12-03T08:47:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T16:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2020-12-04T08:52:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T16:52:28","slug":"disproportionate-incidence-of-covid-19-infection-hospitalizations-and-deaths-among-persons-identifying-as-hispanic-or-latino-denver-colorado-march-october-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/03\/disproportionate-incidence-of-covid-19-infection-hospitalizations-and-deaths-among-persons-identifying-as-hispanic-or-latino-denver-colorado-march-october-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Disproportionate Incidence of COVID-19 Infection, Hospitalizations, and Deaths Among Persons Identifying as Hispanic or Latino \u2014 Denver, Colorado March\u2013October 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>During the first 7 months (March-October) of the COVID-19 epidemic in Denver, Colorado, a majority of adult COVID-19 cases (55%), hospitalizations (62%), and deaths (51%) were among Hispanic adults, despite Hispanic individuals representing only 25% of the population. Compared to symptomatic non-Hispanic adults, a higher proportion of symptomatic Hispanic adults reported working while ill, working in essential industries, living in households of 5 or more people, and delays in testing after symptom onset.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Podewils et al. (Dec 4, 2020). Disproportionate Incidence of COVID-19 Infection, Hospitalizations, and Deaths Among Persons Identifying as Hispanic or Latino \u2014 Denver, Colorado March\u2013October 2020. MMWR. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6948a3\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6948a3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the first 7 months (March-October) of the COVID-19 epidemic in Denver, Colorado, a majority of adult COVID-19 cases (55%), hospitalizations (62%), and deaths (51%) were among Hispanic adults, despite Hispanic individuals representing only 25% of the population. Compared to symptomatic non-Hispanic adults, a higher proportion of symptomatic Hispanic adults reported working while ill, working&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/03\/disproportionate-incidence-of-covid-19-infection-hospitalizations-and-deaths-among-persons-identifying-as-hispanic-or-latino-denver-colorado-march-october-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-2545","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\/2545","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=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2546,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions\/2546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}