{"id":7698,"date":"2020-06-19T11:45:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T18:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7698"},"modified":"2021-03-26T11:46:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T18:46:36","slug":"sars-cov-2-positivity-rate-for-latinos-in-the-baltimore-washington-dc-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/19\/sars-cov-2-positivity-rate-for-latinos-in-the-baltimore-washington-dc-region\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 Positivity Rate for Latinos in the Baltimore-Washington, DC Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"43\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Out of 37,727 patients from 5 hospitals who were tested for SARS-CoV-2 in the Baltimore\/Washington, D.C. region, 16.3% (95% CI 16.0-16.7%) tested positive. Prevalence was significantly higher for Latino patients (42.6%, 95% CI 41.1-44.1%), black patients (17.6%, 95% CI 16.6-18.3%) and patients of other non-white race\/ethnicity (17.2%, 95% CI 16.2-18.3%) compared to white patients (8.8%, 95% CI 8.4-9.2%). Trends in positivity peaked later for Latino patients than white or black patients. The hospital admission rate was lower for Latino patients (29.1%, 95% Ci 27.0-31.2%) than white patients (40.1%, 95% CI 37.6-42.5%) or black patients (41.7%, 95% CI 39.5-43.8%). Hospitalized Latino patients were younger and had lower rates of comorbidities than white or black patients.\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<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Martinez et al. (June 18, 2020). SARS-CoV-2 Positivity Rate for Latinos in the Baltimore-Washington, DC Region. JAMA.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2020.11374\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2020.11374<\/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>Out of 37,727 patients from 5 hospitals who were tested for SARS-CoV-2 in the Baltimore\/Washington, D.C. region, 16.3% (95% CI 16.0-16.7%) tested positive. Prevalence was significantly higher for Latino patients (42.6%, 95% CI 41.1-44.1%), black patients (17.6%, 95% CI 16.6-18.3%) and patients of other non-white race\/ethnicity (17.2%, 95% CI 16.2-18.3%) compared to white patients (8.8%,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/19\/sars-cov-2-positivity-rate-for-latinos-in-the-baltimore-washington-dc-region\/\">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":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-7698","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\/7698","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=7698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7699,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698\/revisions\/7699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7698"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}