{"id":8565,"date":"2020-07-29T11:04:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T18:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8565"},"modified":"2021-04-05T11:04:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T18:04:51","slug":"comparison-of-weighted-and-unweighted-population-data-to-assess-inequities-in-coronavirus-disease-2019-deaths-by-race-ethnicity-reported-by-the-us-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/29\/comparison-of-weighted-and-unweighted-population-data-to-assess-inequities-in-coronavirus-disease-2019-deaths-by-race-ethnicity-reported-by-the-us-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparison of Weighted and Unweighted Population Data to Assess Inequities in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Deaths by Race\/Ethnicity Reported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention"},"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\">Cowger et al.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0compared\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the percentage distribution\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of COVID-19 deaths<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in the US\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">by race\/ethnicity between\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">CDC<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">N<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ational\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">C<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">enter for\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">H<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ealth\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">S<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">tatistics<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2013weighted population and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">unweighted\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">US Census population\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and found that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">weighting approach<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0affects\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">relative\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">mortality burden by race\/ethnicity<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In an analysis using<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the unweighted US Census data, Black individuals were the most overrepresented among COVID-19 deaths, accounting for an excess in absolute COVID-19 mortality of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">10<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%, whereas\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">w<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">hite\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">individuals were underrepresented (\u22128%). In contrast,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">an analysis<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">with the CDC weighted data\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">show<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that w<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">hite individuals\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0most overrepresented (1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Black individuals were less overrepresented (4%).\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The different approaches also\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">yielded<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">iscrepancies among Latinx (\u2212<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% vs \u221210%) and Asian (0.1% vs \u2212<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">6<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%) individuals.<\/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\">The authors urged the CDC to publish data stratified by age, gender, education, and ZIP code characteristics instead of geographical distribution of racial groups to provide unbiased estimates of racial\/ethnic\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">disparities<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/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\">Cowger et al. (July 28, 2020). Comparison of Weighted and Unweighted Population Data to Assess Inequities in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Deaths by Race\/Ethnicity Reported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. JAMA Network Open.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.16933\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.16933<\/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>Cowger et al.\u00a0compared\u00a0the percentage distribution\u00a0of COVID-19 deaths\u00a0in the US\u00a0by race\/ethnicity between\u00a0the\u00a0CDC\u2019s\u00a0National\u00a0Center for\u00a0Health\u00a0Statistics\u2013weighted population and\u00a0the\u00a0unweighted\u00a0US Census population\u00a0and found that\u00a0the\u00a0weighting approach\u00a0affects\u00a0the\u00a0relative\u00a0mortality burden by race\/ethnicity.\u00a0In an analysis using\u00a0the unweighted US Census data, Black individuals were the most overrepresented among COVID-19 deaths, accounting for an excess in absolute COVID-19 mortality of\u00a010%, whereas\u00a0white\u00a0individuals were underrepresented (\u22128%). In contrast,\u00a0an analysis\u00a0with the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/29\/comparison-of-weighted-and-unweighted-population-data-to-assess-inequities-in-coronavirus-disease-2019-deaths-by-race-ethnicity-reported-by-the-us-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention\/\">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-8565","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\/8565","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=8565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8566,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8565\/revisions\/8566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8565"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}