{"id":8855,"date":"2021-04-08T11:18:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T18:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8855"},"modified":"2021-04-13T10:53:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T17:53:47","slug":"differences-in-covid-19-testing-and-test-positivity-among-veterans-united-states-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/08\/differences-in-covid-19-testing-and-test-positivity-among-veterans-united-states-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Differences in COVID-19 Testing and Test Positivity Among Veterans, United States, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">US Veterans who are female, from racial\/ethnic minority groups, had a low income, or had a service-related disability were more likely to obtain a COVID-19 test according to a retrospective cohort study with over 6 million veterans across 130 Veterans Health Administration facilities. Among veterans who were tested, those who identify as African American or native Hawaiian\/Other Pacific Islander were 13% more likely to test positive than white veterans, while veterans who identify as Hispanic\/Latino were 43% more likely to test positive than non-Hispanic\/Latino veterans.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ferguson et al.\u00a0(Apr 7, 2021). Differences in COVID-19 Testing and Test Positivity Among Veterans, United States, 2020. Public Health Reports. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/00333549211009498\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/00333549211009498<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Veterans who are female, from racial\/ethnic minority groups, had a low income, or had a service-related disability were more likely to obtain a COVID-19 test according to a retrospective cohort study with over 6 million veterans across 130 Veterans Health Administration facilities. Among veterans who were tested, those who identify as African American or&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/08\/differences-in-covid-19-testing-and-test-positivity-among-veterans-united-states-2020\/\">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":[42,27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-8855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-disparities","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855","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=8855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8856,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855\/revisions\/8856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8855"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}