{"id":7190,"date":"2020-05-28T11:57:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T18:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7190"},"modified":"2021-03-24T11:58:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T18:58:45","slug":"hospitalization-and-mortality-among-black-patients-and-white-patients-with-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/28\/hospitalization-and-mortality-among-black-patients-and-white-patients-with-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospitalization and Mortality among Black Patients and White Patients with Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Black patients disproportionately accounted for COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a Louisiana\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">integrated-delivery health system: 77% of hospitalizations and 71% of deaths were\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">patients who were black<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, despite\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">b<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">lack\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">residents\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">comprising only 31% of the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">total\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">population. Black race was associated with increased odds of hospitalization, even after controlling for age, comorbidities, use of public insurance (e.g. Medicare or Medicaid), residence in a low-income area, and obesity.\u00a0<\/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\">Black race was not associated with higher in-hospital mortality\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">compared to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">white race, after adjustment for differences in sociodemographic and clinical characteristics on admission.<\/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\">Price-Haywood et al. (May 27, 2020). Hospitalization and Mortality among Black Patients and White Patients with Covid-19. The New England Journal of Medicine.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1056\/NEJMsa2011686\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1056\/NEJMsa2011686<\/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>Black patients disproportionately accounted for COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths in\u00a0a Louisiana\u00a0integrated-delivery health system: 77% of hospitalizations and 71% of deaths were\u00a0patients who were black, despite\u00a0black\u00a0residents\u00a0comprising only 31% of the\u00a0total\u00a0population. Black race was associated with increased odds of hospitalization, even after controlling for age, comorbidities, use of public insurance (e.g. Medicare or Medicaid), residence in a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/28\/hospitalization-and-mortality-among-black-patients-and-white-patients-with-covid-19\/\">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":[20],"class_list":["post-7190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190","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=7190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7191,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190\/revisions\/7191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7190"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}