{"id":815,"date":"2020-09-09T15:15:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T22:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=815"},"modified":"2020-09-10T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T22:18:08","slug":"allocation-of-covid-19-relief-funding-to-disproportionately-black-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/09\/allocation-of-covid-19-relief-funding-to-disproportionately-black-counties\/","title":{"rendered":"Allocation of COVID-19 Relief Funding to Disproportionately Black Counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>US counties with the highest fraction of Black residents received $126 more COVID-19 relief funding per resident ($506 vs. $380, p&lt;0.001) than other counties. However, for a given level of relief funding, disproportionately Black counties had significantly higher COVID-19 burden and worse hospital finances.<br \/>\n\u2022 The authors conclude that the method used to allocate relief funding, which includes prior hospital revenue, should align funding more closely with measures of need.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kakani et al. (Sept 8, 2020). Allocation of COVID-19 Relief Funding to Disproportionately Black Counties. JAMA. <a href=\"http:\/\/discover.uw.edu\/tyO00A0nAZ0xl038Q1000qu\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2020.14978<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US counties with the highest fraction of Black residents received $126 more COVID-19 relief funding per resident ($506 vs. $380, p&lt;0.001) than other counties. However, for a given level of relief funding, disproportionately Black counties had significantly higher COVID-19 burden and worse hospital finances. \u2022 The authors conclude that the method used to allocate relief&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/09\/allocation-of-covid-19-relief-funding-to-disproportionately-black-counties\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}