{"id":8961,"date":"2021-04-12T10:40:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T17:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8961"},"modified":"2021-04-13T10:41:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T17:41:27","slug":"emergency-department-visits-for-covid-19-by-race-and-ethnicity-13-states-october-december-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/12\/emergency-department-visits-for-covid-19-by-race-and-ethnicity-13-states-october-december-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Department Visits for COVID-19 by Race and Ethnicity \u2014 13 States, October\u2013December 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Between October and December 2020, data from 13 US states indicate that the rate of emergency department (ED) visits for COVID-19 was 1.7 times higher among Hispanic and American Indian or Alaska Native (AI\/AN) persons, and 1.4 times higher among Black persons, than white persons. Hispanic, AI\/AN, and Black persons had significantly more COVID-19\u2013related ED visits overall (RR range = 1.39\u20131.77) and in all age groups through age 74 years.\u00a0 The authors provide context for these findings by stating that the racial\/ethnic groups that sought ED care for COVID-19 at disproportionately higher rates have also experienced long-standing systemic i<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">nequities that affect their health, and that racism<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">rather than a person\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">race or ethnicity), is a key driver of the observed health inequities.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith et al. (April 2021). Emergency Department Visits for COVID-19 by Race and Ethnicity \u2014 13 States, October\u2013December 2020. MMWR. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7015e3.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7015e3.htm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between October and December 2020, data from 13 US states indicate that the rate of emergency department (ED) visits for COVID-19 was 1.7 times higher among Hispanic and American Indian or Alaska Native (AI\/AN) persons, and 1.4 times higher among Black persons, than white persons. Hispanic, AI\/AN, and Black persons had significantly more COVID-19\u2013related ED&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/12\/emergency-department-visits-for-covid-19-by-race-and-ethnicity-13-states-october-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-8961","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\/8961","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=8961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8962,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8961\/revisions\/8962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8961"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}