{"id":8959,"date":"2021-04-12T10:39:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T17:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8959"},"modified":"2021-04-13T10:40:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T17:40:15","slug":"trends-in-racial-and-ethnic-disparities-in-covid-19-hospitalizations-by-region-united-states-march-december-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/12\/trends-in-racial-and-ethnic-disparities-in-covid-19-hospitalizations-by-region-united-states-march-december-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Trends in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Hospitalizations, by Region \u2014 United States, March \u2013 December 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Based on hospitalization discharge data from each of the four US census regions, the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">age-adjusted COVID-19 proportionate hospitalization ratios (aPHRs) were highest for Hispanic or Latino patients (range 2.7-3.9) relative to non-Hispanic <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">white <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">patients.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 hospitalization were largest during May\u2013July 2020, and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">while <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">aPHRs declined for most racial and ethnic groups during July\u2013November 2020, they increased for some racial and ethnic groups in some regions in December. These disparities became less pronounced over the course of the pandemic, as COVID-19 hospitalizations increased among non-Hispanic <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">white <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">persons.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Romano et al.\u00a0(2021). Trends in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Hospitalizations, by Region \u2014 United States, March \u2013 December 2020. MMWR.<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7015e2.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7015e2.htm<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on hospitalization discharge data from each of the four US census regions, the age-adjusted COVID-19 proportionate hospitalization ratios (aPHRs) were highest for Hispanic or Latino patients (range 2.7-3.9) relative to non-Hispanic white patients. Racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 hospitalization were largest during May\u2013July 2020, and while aPHRs declined for most racial and ethnic&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/12\/trends-in-racial-and-ethnic-disparities-in-covid-19-hospitalizations-by-region-united-states-march-december-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":[42,29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-8959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-disparities","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959","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=8959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8960,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959\/revisions\/8960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8959"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}