{"id":6771,"date":"2020-05-11T16:39:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T23:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6771"},"modified":"2021-03-17T16:39:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T23:39:55","slug":"comprehensive-testing-highlights-racial-ethnic-and-age-disparities-in-the-covid-19-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/11\/comprehensive-testing-highlights-racial-ethnic-and-age-disparities-in-the-covid-19-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Comprehensive Testing Highlights Racial Ethnic and Age Disparities in the COVID-19 Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ahmed et al. compared the characteristics of 1,229 (6.1%) SARS-CoV-2-positive patients to 18,859 (93.9%) people who tested negative in Salt Lake County, Utah. Adjusted for symptoms, Hispanic or\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Latino persons were 2-fold more likely than non-Hispanic white individuals to test positive (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">aOR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=2.0, 95%CI: 1.3-3.1).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Risk of hospitalization was higher among people aged 60+ compared to people aged 0-19 (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">aOR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=6.9, 95%CI: 2.1-22.5). Younger individuals (aged 0-19) were underrepresented in both overall rates of testing and rates of testing positive.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Ahmed et al. (May 9, 2020). Comprehensive Testing Highlights Racial Ethnic and Age Disparities in the COVID-19 Outbreak. Pre-print downloaded May 11 from\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.05.20092031\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.05.20092031<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmed et al. compared the characteristics of 1,229 (6.1%) SARS-CoV-2-positive patients to 18,859 (93.9%) people who tested negative in Salt Lake County, Utah. Adjusted for symptoms, Hispanic or\u00a0Latino persons were 2-fold more likely than non-Hispanic white individuals to test positive (aOR=2.0, 95%CI: 1.3-3.1).\u00a0 Risk of hospitalization was higher among people aged 60+ compared to people&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/11\/comprehensive-testing-highlights-racial-ethnic-and-age-disparities-in-the-covid-19-outbreak\/\">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":[16],"class_list":["post-6771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6771","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=6771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6772,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6771\/revisions\/6772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6771"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}