{"id":7988,"date":"2021-03-29T17:29:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T00:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7988"},"modified":"2021-03-30T17:30:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T00:30:20","slug":"characterizing-the-disproportionate-burden-of-sars-cov-2-variants-of-concern-among-essential-workers-in-the-greater-toronto-area-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/29\/characterizing-the-disproportionate-burden-of-sars-cov-2-variants-of-concern-among-essential-workers-in-the-greater-toronto-area-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Characterizing the Disproportionate Burden of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern among Essential Workers in the Greater Toronto Area Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, SARS-CoV-2 cases defined as variant of concern (VOC) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">emerged faster in groups with<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> lowest income (growth rate 43.8%, 34.6%<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and 21.6% by income tertile from lowest to highest), and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">most essential work (growth rate 18.4%, 30.8%, and 50.8% by essential work tertile from lowest to highest) from February 3 to March 10, 2021. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">VOC cases included the N501Y mutation present in multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants;93% of samples sequenced were the B.1.1.7 variant. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The study examined data from individuals with laboratory-confirmed infection (N=22,478) and census data for neighborhood attributes. The authors note these trends are consistent with the increased burden of non-VOC COVID-19 cases, suggesting shared risk factors.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chagla et al.\u00a0(Mar 26, 2021). Characterizing the Disproportionate Burden of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern among Essential Workers in the Greater Toronto Area Canada. Pre-print downloaded Mar 29 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.03.22.21254127\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.03.22.21254127<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] In the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, SARS-CoV-2 cases defined as variant of concern (VOC) emerged faster in groups with the lowest income (growth rate 43.8%, 34.6%, and 21.6% by income tertile from lowest to highest), and the most essential work (growth rate 18.4%, 30.8%, and 50.8% by essential work tertile from lowest&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/29\/characterizing-the-disproportionate-burden-of-sars-cov-2-variants-of-concern-among-essential-workers-in-the-greater-toronto-area-canada\/\">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":[29,159],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-7988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","tag-variants","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988","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=7988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7989,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988\/revisions\/7989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7988"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}