{"id":5806,"date":"2021-03-04T20:58:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T04:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5806"},"modified":"2021-03-04T20:58:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T04:58:52","slug":"nursing-facilities-food-manufacturing-plants-and-covid-19-cases-and-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/04\/nursing-facilities-food-manufacturing-plants-and-covid-19-cases-and-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing Facilities, Food Manufacturing Plants and COVID-19 Cases and Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A higher number of meatpacking plants and bakeries within a hospital reference region (HRR) or a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) was associated with a higher number of COVID-19 related deaths in the US through May 2020. After adjusting for demographics and socioeconomic characteristics, an additional plant within an HRR and MSA was associated with 21% and 16% more cases, respectively, and 7% more deaths within an HRR. An additional bakery establishment was associated with 14% and 9% more cases, and 13% and 10% more deaths within an HRR and MSA, respectively. In contrast, the addition of a skilled nursing facility or retirement and assisted living facility within an HRR and MSA was not associated with higher cases and deaths.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Asher et al.\u00a0(Feb 24, 2021). Nursing Facilities, Food Manufacturing Plants and COVID-19 Cases and Deaths. Economics Letters. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.econlet.2021.109800\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.econlet.2021.109800<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A higher number of meatpacking plants and bakeries within a hospital reference region (HRR) or a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) was associated with a higher number of COVID-19 related deaths in the US through May 2020. After adjusting for demographics and socioeconomic characteristics, an additional plant within an HRR and MSA was associated with 21%&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/04\/nursing-facilities-food-manufacturing-plants-and-covid-19-cases-and-deaths\/\">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":[150],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-5806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-congregate-settings","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806","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=5806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5807,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806\/revisions\/5807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5806"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}