{"id":2816,"date":"2020-12-17T13:50:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T21:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2020-12-18T13:52:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T21:52:30","slug":"natural-history-of-covid-19-risk-factors-for-hospitalizations-and-deaths-among-26-million-u-s-medicare-beneficiaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/17\/natural-history-of-covid-19-risk-factors-for-hospitalizations-and-deaths-among-26-million-u-s-medicare-beneficiaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural History of COVID-19: Risk Factors for Hospitalizations and Deaths among 26 Million U.S. Medicare Beneficiaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>An analysis of over 26 million US Medicare beneficiaries found the COVID-19 death rate among beneficiaries in nursing homes was much higher than among beneficiaries in the general Medicare population (275.7 vs 5 per 10,000). Clinical predictors of death in the study population included immunocompromised status, frailty index conditions, and comorbidities. Demographic predictors of death included male sex, older age, Medicaid dual-eligibility status, and racial\/ethnic minority.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Izurieta et al. (Dec 16, 2020). Natural History of COVID-19: Risk Factors for Hospitalizations and Deaths among 26 Million U.S. Medicare Beneficiaries. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/infdis\/jiaa767\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/infdis\/jiaa767<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of over 26 million US Medicare beneficiaries found the COVID-19 death rate among beneficiaries in nursing homes was much higher than among beneficiaries in the general Medicare population (275.7 vs 5 per 10,000). Clinical predictors of death in the study population included immunocompromised status, frailty index conditions, and comorbidities. Demographic predictors of death&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/17\/natural-history-of-covid-19-risk-factors-for-hospitalizations-and-deaths-among-26-million-u-s-medicare-beneficiaries\/\">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":[46],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-risk-factors","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816","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=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2817,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions\/2817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}