{"id":7913,"date":"2020-07-01T19:54:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T02:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7913"},"modified":"2021-03-29T19:55:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T02:55:34","slug":"half-of-rural-residents-at-high-risk-of-serious-illness-due-to-covid%e2%80%9019-creating-stress-on-rural-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/01\/half-of-rural-residents-at-high-risk-of-serious-illness-due-to-covid%e2%80%9019-creating-stress-on-rural-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of Rural Residents at High Risk of Serious Illness Due to COVID\u201019, Creating Stress on Rural Hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Based on data<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0from the 2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">50% of rural residents are at high risk for hospitalization and serious illness if they\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were to be\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">infected with COVID-19, compared to 4<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">7<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cmicropolitan\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and 40% in metropolitan areas.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\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\">Kaufman et al<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">e<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">stimate that r<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ural residents will generate an estimated 10% more hospitalizations for COVID-19 per capita than urban residents given equal infection rates.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Kaufman et al. (June 30, 2020). Half of Rural Residents at High Risk of Serious Illness Due to COVID\u201019, Creating Stress on Rural Hospitals. The Journal of Rural Health.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/jrh.12481\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/jrh.12481<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on data\u00a0from the 2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System,\u00a050% of rural residents are at high risk for hospitalization and serious illness if they\u00a0were to be\u00a0infected with COVID-19, compared to 47%\u00a0\u201cmicropolitan\u201d\u00a0and 40% in metropolitan areas.\u00a0 Kaufman et al.\u00a0estimate that rural residents will generate an estimated 10% more hospitalizations for COVID-19 per capita than urban residents&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/01\/half-of-rural-residents-at-high-risk-of-serious-illness-due-to-covid%e2%80%9019-creating-stress-on-rural-hospitals\/\">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-7913","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\/7913","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=7913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7914,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions\/7914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7913"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}