{"id":2681,"date":"2020-12-10T09:52:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T17:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2020-12-11T09:53:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T17:53:48","slug":"covid-19-mortality-among-american-indian-and-alaska-native-persons-14-states-january-june-2020-mmwr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/10\/covid-19-mortality-among-american-indian-and-alaska-native-persons-14-states-january-june-2020-mmwr\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Mortality Among American Indian and Alaska Native Persons \u2014 14 States, January\u2013June 2020. MMWR"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Data from 14 states, including Washington, show that age-adjusted COVID-19-associated mortality was 1.8 times higher among American Indian\/Alaskan Native (AI\/AN) than non-Hispanic white individuals. People aged 20-29 years, 30-39 years, and 40-49 years experienced the largest disparities, with mortality rates 10.5, 11.6, and 8.2 times higher, respectively. Overall, AI\/AN persons dying from COVID-19 were younger than their white peers, with 35.1% of AI\/AN COVID-19-associated deaths among persons aged &lt;60 years, compared with 6.3% of deaths among white persons. Mortality was higher among men for both AI\/AN and white persons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Arrazola et al. (Dec 11, 2020). COVID-19 Mortality Among American Indian and Alaska Native Persons \u2014 14 States, January\u2013June 2020. MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6949a3\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6949a3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data from 14 states, including Washington, show that age-adjusted COVID-19-associated mortality was 1.8 times higher among American Indian\/Alaskan Native (AI\/AN) than non-Hispanic white individuals. People aged 20-29 years, 30-39 years, and 40-49 years experienced the largest disparities, with mortality rates 10.5, 11.6, and 8.2 times higher, respectively. Overall, AI\/AN persons dying from COVID-19 were younger&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/10\/covid-19-mortality-among-american-indian-and-alaska-native-persons-14-states-january-june-2020-mmwr\/\">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":[29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","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=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2682,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions\/2682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}