{"id":7217,"date":"2020-05-29T12:12:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T19:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7217"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:13:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:13:31","slug":"estimating-the-size-of-high-risk-populations-for-covid-19-mortality-across-442-us-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/29\/estimating-the-size-of-high-risk-populations-for-covid-19-mortality-across-442-us-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimating the Size of High-Risk Populations for COVID-19 Mortality across 442 US Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[pre-print, not peer reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Jin\u00a0et al. used a weighted risk-score to characterize the distribution of risk for COVID-19 mortality for populations across 442 large US cities and found that though 1.34 million individuals are at a 10-fold higher risk<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0than the general population<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0the majority of\u00a0deaths will still occur outside these\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">high<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">risk groups. The authors suggest that targeted interventions for\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">high<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">risk groups such as shielding\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">do not fully<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0substitute for broader\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">community<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">level interventions such as social\u00a0distancing.<\/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\">Jin\u00a0et al. (May 29, 2020). Estimating the Size of High-Risk Populations for COVID-19 Mortality across 442 US Cities.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Preprint\u00a0downloaded May 29 from<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.27.20115170\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.27.20115170<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&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>[pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0Jin\u00a0et al. used a weighted risk-score to characterize the distribution of risk for COVID-19 mortality for populations across 442 large US cities and found that though 1.34 million individuals are at a 10-fold higher risk\u00a0than the general population,\u00a0the majority of\u00a0deaths will still occur outside these\u00a0high&#8211;risk groups. The authors suggest that targeted interventions&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/29\/estimating-the-size-of-high-risk-populations-for-covid-19-mortality-across-442-us-cities\/\">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-7217","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\/7217","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=7217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7218,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7217\/revisions\/7218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7217"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}