{"id":3149,"date":"2021-01-11T20:11:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T04:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2021-01-11T20:11:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T04:11:26","slug":"using-lorenz-curves-to-measure-racial-inequities-in-covid-19-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/11\/using-lorenz-curves-to-measure-racial-inequities-in-covid-19-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Lorenz Curves to Measure Racial Inequities in COVID-19 Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cross-sectional study using modified Lorenz curves to assess disparities in COVID-19 testing relative to disease burden found that in the St. Louis region, 89,341 SARS-CoV-2 tests (22.9%) were conducted in the 23 zip codes accounting for 50% of hospitalizations; 17 of these zip codes had a population where &gt;50% of residents were Black. In contrast, 218,057 tests (52.9%) were conducted in the 86 zip codes accounting for only 25% of hospitalizations, none of which had a predominantly Black population. Within the same zip code, Black residents consistently had lower rates of tests per hospitalization compared with white residents.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Mody et al. (Jan 8, 2021). Using Lorenz Curves to Measure Racial Inequities in COVID-19 Testing. JAMA Network Open. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33416882\/\">https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33416882\/<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cross-sectional study using modified Lorenz curves to assess disparities in COVID-19 testing relative to disease burden found that in the St. Louis region, 89,341 SARS-CoV-2 tests (22.9%) were conducted in the 23 zip codes accounting for 50% of hospitalizations; 17 of these zip codes had a population where &gt;50% of residents were Black. In&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/11\/using-lorenz-curves-to-measure-racial-inequities-in-covid-19-testing\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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":[19],"class_list":["post-3149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-disparities","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3150,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions\/3150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3149"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}