{"id":541,"date":"2020-08-26T19:52:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T02:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=541"},"modified":"2020-08-31T19:53:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T02:53:58","slug":"socio-demographic-heterogeneity-in-the-prevalence-of-covid-19-during-lockdown-is-associated-with-ethnicity-and-household-size-results-from-an-observational-cohort-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/26\/socio-demographic-heterogeneity-in-the-prevalence-of-covid-19-during-lockdown-is-associated-with-ethnicity-and-household-size-results-from-an-observational-cohort-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Socio-Demographic Heterogeneity in the Prevalence of COVID-19 during Lockdown Is Associated with Ethnicity and Household Size: Results from an Observational Cohort Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A UK-based retrospective cohort study including people tested for SARS-CoV-2 at university hospitals (n=4051) found that individuals from ethnic minority communities and larger households had an increased likelihood of SARS-CoV-2 PCR positivity. After adjustment, compared to people with white ethnicity, people with South Asian (aOR=2.4, 95%CI 2.0-3.0), Black (aOR=2.6, 95%CI 1.7-3.8), and other (aOR=2.5, 95%CI 1.7-3.7) ethnicities were more likely to test positive, as were those with a larger estimated household size (aOR=1.01, 95%CI 1.0-1.1).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Martin et al. (July 17, 2020). Socio-Demographic Heterogeneity in the Prevalence of COVID-19 during Lockdown Is Associated with Ethnicity and Household Size: Results from an Observational Cohort Study. EClinicalMedicine. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.eclinm.2020.100466\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.eclinm.2020.100466<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UK-based retrospective cohort study including people tested for SARS-CoV-2 at university hospitals (n=4051) found that individuals from ethnic minority communities and larger households had an increased likelihood of SARS-CoV-2 PCR positivity. After adjustment, compared to people with white ethnicity, people with South Asian (aOR=2.4, 95%CI 2.0-3.0), Black (aOR=2.6, 95%CI 1.7-3.8), and other (aOR=2.5, 95%CI&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/26\/socio-demographic-heterogeneity-in-the-prevalence-of-covid-19-during-lockdown-is-associated-with-ethnicity-and-household-size-results-from-an-observational-cohort-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[16],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-disparities","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}