{"id":9064,"date":"2020-08-14T11:42:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T18:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9064"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:42:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:42:41","slug":"racial-and-ethnic-disparities-in-sars-cov-2-pandemic-analysis-of-a-covid-19-observational-registry-for-a-diverse-us-metropolitan-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/14\/racial-and-ethnic-disparities-in-sars-cov-2-pandemic-analysis-of-a-covid-19-observational-registry-for-a-diverse-us-metropolitan-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Racial and Ethnic Disparities in SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Analysis of a COVID-19 Observational Registry for a Diverse US Metropolitan Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"47\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A cross-sectional analysis of the COVID-19 Surveillance and Outcomes Registry, which captures data for a large healthcare system in the Houston area, reported a 7% test positivity. After adjustment for confounders,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">compared to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">non-Hispanic white<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s, test positivity was higher among\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">non-Hispanic Black<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0individuals\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(OR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2.2)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and those of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hispanic ethnicity (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">OR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1.95). Using structural equation modeling, the authors demonstrated a significant indirect effect of race and ethnicity mediated by population density in zip<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">code of residence.\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\">Vahidy<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0et al. (Aug 11, 2020). Racial and Ethnic Disparities in SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Analysis of a COVID-19 Observational Registry for a Diverse US Metropolitan Population. BMJ Open.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/bmjopen-2020-039849\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/bmjopen-2020-039849<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cross-sectional analysis of the COVID-19 Surveillance and Outcomes Registry, which captures data for a large healthcare system in the Houston area, reported a 7% test positivity. After adjustment for confounders,\u00a0compared to\u00a0non-Hispanic whites, test positivity was higher among\u00a0non-Hispanic Black\u00a0individuals\u00a0(OR=2.2)\u00a0and those of\u00a0Hispanic ethnicity (OR=1.95). Using structural equation modeling, the authors demonstrated a significant indirect effect of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/14\/racial-and-ethnic-disparities-in-sars-cov-2-pandemic-analysis-of-a-covid-19-observational-registry-for-a-diverse-us-metropolitan-population\/\">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-9064","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\/9064","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=9064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9065,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064\/revisions\/9065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9064"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}