{"id":6332,"date":"2020-04-28T14:26:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T21:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6332"},"modified":"2021-03-10T14:27:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T22:27:22","slug":"racial-and-ethnic-disparities-in-sars-cov-2-pandemic-analysis-of-a-covid-19-observational-registry-for-a-diverse-u-s-metropolitan-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/28\/racial-and-ethnic-disparities-in-sars-cov-2-pandemic-analysis-of-a-covid-19-observational-registry-for-a-diverse-u-s-metropolitan-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Racial and Ethnic Disparities in SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Analysis of a COVID-19 Observational Registry for a Diverse U.S. Metropolitan Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A cross sectional analysis of 4,513 individuals, including 754 positive cases, explores race disparities and potential mediating pathways (low income, high population density, and high comorbidity burden).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Findings show that African American race and Hispanic ethnicity are associated with higher likelihood of SARS-CoV-2 infection, even after adjusting for other important socio-demographic and comorbidity factors. The authors provide the potential explanation that residence in population-dense areas may limit ability to practice social distancing.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vahidy et al. (April 28, 2020). Racial and Ethnic Disparities in SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Analysis of a COVID-19 Observational Registry for a Diverse U.S. Metropolitan Population. Pre-print downloaded Apr 28 from<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.24.20073148\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.24.20073148<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cross sectional analysis of 4,513 individuals, including 754 positive cases, explores race disparities and potential mediating pathways (low income, high population density, and high comorbidity burden). Findings show that African American race and Hispanic ethnicity are associated with higher likelihood of SARS-CoV-2 infection, even after adjusting for other important socio-demographic and comorbidity factors. The&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/28\/racial-and-ethnic-disparities-in-sars-cov-2-pandemic-analysis-of-a-covid-19-observational-registry-for-a-diverse-u-s-metropolitan-population\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-6332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6333,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions\/6333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6332"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}