{"id":7670,"date":"2021-03-25T11:23:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T18:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7670"},"modified":"2021-03-26T11:24:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T18:24:10","slug":"counties-with-high-covid-19-incidence-and-relatively-large-racial-and-ethnic-minority-populations-united-states-april-1-december-22-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/25\/counties-with-high-covid-19-incidence-and-relatively-large-racial-and-ethnic-minority-populations-united-states-april-1-december-22-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Counties with High COVID-19 Incidence and Relatively Large Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations \u2014 United States, April 1\u2013December 22, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">US county-level data show that during April 2020 11% of counties (n=3,142) reported high 2-week COVID-19 incidence (&gt;100 new cases per 100,000 persons), which rose to 65% of counties in August, and 99% in December 2020. Counties whose percentages of racial and ethnic minority populations are larger than the respective national percentages were consistently overrepresented among high incidence counties in April (29% of counties with large percentages of Asian persons and 28% of counties with large percentages of Black persons) and in August (92% of counties with large percentages of Black persons and 75% of counties with large percentages of Hispanic persons).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lee et al.\u00a0(Mar 24, 2021). Counties with High COVID-19 Incidence and Relatively Large Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations \u2014 United States, April 1\u2013December 22, 2020. MMWR. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7013e1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7013e1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US county-level data show that during April 2020 11% of counties (n=3,142) reported high 2-week COVID-19 incidence (&gt;100 new cases per 100,000 persons), which rose to 65% of counties in August, and 99% in December 2020. Counties whose percentages of racial and ethnic minority populations are larger than the respective national percentages were consistently overrepresented&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/25\/counties-with-high-covid-19-incidence-and-relatively-large-racial-and-ethnic-minority-populations-united-states-april-1-december-22-2020\/\">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":[42],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-7670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-disparities","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670","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=7670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7671,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670\/revisions\/7671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7670"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}