{"id":3881,"date":"2021-02-11T18:39:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T02:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3881"},"modified":"2021-02-11T18:39:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T02:39:58","slug":"factors-associated-with-racial-differences-in-deaths-among-nursing-home-residents-with-covid-19-infection-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/11\/factors-associated-with-racial-differences-in-deaths-among-nursing-home-residents-with-covid-19-infection-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Factors Associated With Racial Differences in Deaths Among Nursing Home Residents With COVID-19 Infection in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19-associated deaths in the US were higher in nursing homes with greater proportions of non-white residents, according to a cross-sectional survey involving 13,312 nursing homes. Nursing homes with the lowest quintile proportion of white residents (&lt;60%) had 4 more deaths on average from January to September 2020, corresponding to 3.3-fold higher deaths than those with the highest quintile proportion of white residents (&gt;97%) (mean deaths per facility 5.6 vs 1.7, respectively). After adjustment for the number of certified beds and county-level COVID-19 prevalence, nursing homes with the lowest quintile of white residents had 1 more death on average compared to those with the highest quintile of white residents.<\/p>\n<p><i>Gorges and Konetzka. (Feb 10, 2021). Factors Associated With Racial Differences in Deaths Among Nursing Home Residents With COVID-19 Infection in the US. JAMA Network Open. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.37431\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.37431<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19-associated deaths in the US were higher in nursing homes with greater proportions of non-white residents, according to a cross-sectional survey involving 13,312 nursing homes. Nursing homes with the lowest quintile proportion of white residents (&lt;60%) had 4 more deaths on average from January to September 2020, corresponding to 3.3-fold higher deaths than those with&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/11\/factors-associated-with-racial-differences-in-deaths-among-nursing-home-residents-with-covid-19-infection-in-the-us\/\">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":[34],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-3881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881","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=3881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3882,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions\/3882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3881"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}