{"id":3184,"date":"2021-01-12T13:13:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T21:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2021-01-13T13:15:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T21:15:07","slug":"empiric-evidence-of-ethnic-disparities-in-coronavirus-positivity-in-washington-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/12\/empiric-evidence-of-ethnic-disparities-in-coronavirus-positivity-in-washington-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Empiric Evidence of Ethnic Disparities in Coronavirus Positivity in Washington State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minority groups experienced higher rates of SARS-CoV-2 positivity compared to white patients in Washington State during the first wave of the pandemic (n=18,667). Latinx patients had nearly a 5-fold risk of positivity compared to white patients, while Black patients had nearly a 2-fold risk of positivity. Notably, 22% of Latinx patients had self-pay insurance compared to 8-16% of other ethnic groups, and were the only ethnic minority with higher odds than white patients for COVID-19 hospitalization.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Pflugeisen and Mou. (Jan 11, 2021). Empiric Evidence of Ethnic Disparities in Coronavirus Positivity in Washington State. Ethnicity &amp; Health. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33428455\/\">https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33428455\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minority groups experienced higher rates of SARS-CoV-2 positivity compared to white patients in Washington State during the first wave of the pandemic (n=18,667). Latinx patients had nearly a 5-fold risk of positivity compared to white patients, while Black patients had nearly a 2-fold risk of positivity. Notably, 22% of Latinx patients had self-pay insurance compared&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/12\/empiric-evidence-of-ethnic-disparities-in-coronavirus-positivity-in-washington-state\/\">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":[42,68],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-3184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-disparities","tag-washington","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184","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=3184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3185,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions\/3185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}