{"id":8514,"date":"2020-07-27T10:33:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T17:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8514"},"modified":"2021-04-05T10:34:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:34:01","slug":"risk-for-covid-19-infection-and-death-among-latinos-in-the-united-states-examining-heterogeneity-in-transmission-dynamics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/27\/risk-for-covid-19-infection-and-death-among-latinos-in-the-united-states-examining-heterogeneity-in-transmission-dynamics\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk for COVID-19 Infection and Death among Latinos in the United States: Examining Heterogeneity in Transmission Dynamics"},"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\">Rodriguez-Diaz et al. compared counties with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a greater proportion<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Latino\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">residents than the US average (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">n=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">443<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and all other counties\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(n=2700)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and found that COVID-19 cases were greater in Northeastern and Midwestern Latino counties (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">RR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1.42 and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">RR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1.70, respectively), while deaths were greater in Midwestern Latino counties (RR, 1.17, 95% CI 1.04-1.34).<\/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<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Factors such as greater monolingual Spanish speakers, employment rates, and less social\u00a0distancing\u00a0were associated with higher diagnostic rates, suggesting that structural factors may cause differences in risk among Latino populations.<\/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\">Rodriguez-Diaz et al. (July 23, 2020). Risk for COVID-19 Infection and Death among Latinos in the United States: Examining Heterogeneity in Transmission Dynamics. Annals of Epidemiology.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.annepidem.2020.07.007\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.annepidem.2020.07.007<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><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>Rodriguez-Diaz et al. compared counties with\u00a0a greater proportion\u00a0of\u00a0Latino\u00a0residents than the US average (n=443)\u00a0and all other counties\u00a0(n=2700)\u00a0and found that COVID-19 cases were greater in Northeastern and Midwestern Latino counties (RR=1.42 and\u00a0RR=1.70, respectively), while deaths were greater in Midwestern Latino counties (RR, 1.17, 95% CI 1.04-1.34).\u00a0 Factors such as greater monolingual Spanish speakers, employment rates, and less&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/27\/risk-for-covid-19-infection-and-death-among-latinos-in-the-united-states-examining-heterogeneity-in-transmission-dynamics\/\">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-8514","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\/8514","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=8514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8515,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions\/8515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8514"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}