{"id":3365,"date":"2021-01-21T22:28:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T06:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3365"},"modified":"2021-01-22T22:29:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T06:29:44","slug":"association-of-social-and-economic-inequality-with-coronavirus-disease-2019-incidence-and-mortality-across-us-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/21\/association-of-social-and-economic-inequality-with-coronavirus-disease-2019-incidence-and-mortality-across-us-counties\/","title":{"rendered":"Association of Social and Economic Inequality With Coronavirus Disease 2019 Incidence and Mortality Across US Counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cross-sectional ecologic analysis using US county-level data found that counties with higher income inequality and a higher proportion of Black or Hispanic residents had higher COVID-19 incidence and mortality. Each 1% increase in county-level income inequality, proportion of Black residents, and proportion of Hispanic residents corresponded to 2%, 1.9%, and 2.4% higher incidence and 3%, 2.6%, and 1.9% higher mortality, respectively. No state-level political characteristics were associated with incidence or mortality. Incidence was on average 32% lower in counties in states with Medicaid expansion than those without.<\/p>\n<p><i>Liao and De Maio. (Jan 20, 2021). Association of Social and Economic Inequality With Coronavirus Disease 2019 Incidence and Mortality Across US Counties. JAMA Network Open. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.34578\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.34578<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cross-sectional ecologic analysis using US county-level data found that counties with higher income inequality and a higher proportion of Black or Hispanic residents had higher COVID-19 incidence and mortality. Each 1% increase in county-level income inequality, proportion of Black residents, and proportion of Hispanic residents corresponded to 2%, 1.9%, and 2.4% higher incidence and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/21\/association-of-social-and-economic-inequality-with-coronavirus-disease-2019-incidence-and-mortality-across-us-counties\/\">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":[42,46],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-3365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-disparities","tag-risk-factors","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365","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=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3366,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions\/3366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}