{"id":8775,"date":"2020-08-06T11:35:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T18:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8775"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:35:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:35:54","slug":"racial-ethnic-and-socioeconomic-disparities-of-sars-cov-2-infection-among-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/06\/racial-ethnic-and-socioeconomic-disparities-of-sars-cov-2-infection-among-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Racial\/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Goyal et al. performed a cross-sectional study of 1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">000 children\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">at<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">tending<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0a community-based\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">testing site from<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">March 21-April 28, 2020<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in Washington, DC<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and determined<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">infection\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">rates<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">by\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">race\/ethnicity and estimated median family income (MFI). They found that the infection rates were significantly higher among\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">racial and ethnic\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">minority children (30%\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">among<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">non-Hispanic\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Black<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0children<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 46%\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">among\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hispanic<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0children<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 7% among non-Hispanic-white<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0children<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">) and among children\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in less socioeconomically advantaged households (9% in 4<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">th<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0MFI quartile, 24% in 3<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">rd<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0quartile: 27% in 2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nd<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0quartile: 38% in 1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">st<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0quartile).\u00a0<\/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\">Goyal et al. (Aug 1, 2020). Racial\/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Children. Pediatrics.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1542\/peds.2020-009951\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1542\/peds.2020-009951<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><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>Goyal et al. performed a cross-sectional study of 1,000 children\u00a0attending\u00a0a community-based\u00a0SARS-CoV-2\u00a0testing site from\u00a0March 21-April 28, 2020\u00a0in Washington, DC\u00a0and determined\u00a0infection\u00a0rates\u00a0by\u00a0race\/ethnicity and estimated median family income (MFI). They found that the infection rates were significantly higher among\u00a0racial and ethnic\u00a0minority children (30%\u00a0among\u00a0non-Hispanic\u00a0Black\u00a0children, 46%\u00a0among\u00a0Hispanic\u00a0children, 7% among non-Hispanic-white\u00a0children) and among children\u00a0in less socioeconomically advantaged households (9% in 4th\u00a0MFI quartile, 24%&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/06\/racial-ethnic-and-socioeconomic-disparities-of-sars-cov-2-infection-among-children\/\">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":[20],"class_list":["post-8775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775","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=8775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8776,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8775\/revisions\/8776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8775"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}