{"id":8908,"date":"2021-04-09T11:49:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T18:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8908"},"modified":"2021-04-12T11:50:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T18:50:23","slug":"covid-19-incidence-and-mortality-among-american-indian-alaska-native-and-white-persons-montana-march-13-november-30-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/09\/covid-19-incidence-and-mortality-among-american-indian-alaska-native-and-white-persons-montana-march-13-november-30-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality Among American Indian\/Alaska Native and White Persons \u2014 Montana, March 13\u2013November 30, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A review of COVID-19 surveillance data from March-November 2020 in Montana revealed that COVID-19 incidence and mortality were higher among American Indian\/Alaska Native (AI\/AN) persons compared to white persons. The incidence of COVID-19 among AI\/AN persons was 2.2-times higher than among White persons and COVID-19 mortality was 3.8-times higher. The case fatality rate was 1.7-times higher among AI\/AN persons compared to White persons. The authors note that these data emphasize the importance of allocating vaccination resources and implementation of culturally appropriate public health measures to tribal communities.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Williamson et al. (Apr 9, 2021). COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality Among American Indian\/Alaska Native and White Persons \u2014 Montana, March 13\u2013November 30, 2020. MMWR. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7014a2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7014a2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review of COVID-19 surveillance data from March-November 2020 in Montana revealed that COVID-19 incidence and mortality were higher among American Indian\/Alaska Native (AI\/AN) persons compared to white persons. The incidence of COVID-19 among AI\/AN persons was 2.2-times higher than among White persons and COVID-19 mortality was 3.8-times higher. The case fatality rate was 1.7-times&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/09\/covid-19-incidence-and-mortality-among-american-indian-alaska-native-and-white-persons-montana-march-13-november-30-2020\/\">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],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-8908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-disparities","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908","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=8908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8909,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908\/revisions\/8909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8908"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}