{"id":9075,"date":"2020-08-17T11:48:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T18:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9075"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:49:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:49:07","slug":"racial-and-ethnic-disparities-among-covid-19-cases-in-workplace-outbreaks-by-industry-sector-utah-march-6-june-5-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/17\/racial-and-ethnic-disparities-among-covid-19-cases-in-workplace-outbreaks-by-industry-sector-utah-march-6-june-5-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among COVID-19 Cases in Workplace Outbreaks by Industry Sector \u2014 Utah, March 6\u2013June 5, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">During March 6\u2013June 5, 2020, Utah reported 1,389 COVID-19 cases associated with 210 workplace-related outbreaks, defined as the occurrence of two or more laboratory-confirmed cases occurring within the same 14-day period among coworkers in a common workplace (median cases per outbreak=4; range=2\u201379) involving 15 industry sectors, most frequently in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">m<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">anufacturing (20%),\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">onstruction (15%), and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">w<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">holesale\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">t<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">rade (14%). In total, 970 (73%) of persons with workplace outbreak-associated COVID-19 were identified as Hispanic or nonwhite, although these ethnic\/racial groups represent &lt;24% of Utah\u2019s workforce in the 15 affected industry sectors.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The authors conclude that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">mitigation strategies should be culturally and linguistically responsive to racial\/ethnic minority workers disproportionately affected by COVID-19.<\/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\">Bui et al. (<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Aug 17,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">2020). Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among COVID-19 Cases in Workplace Outbreaks by Industry Sector \u2014 Utah, March 6\u2013June 5, 2020. MMWR.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6933e3\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6933e3<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During March 6\u2013June 5, 2020, Utah reported 1,389 COVID-19 cases associated with 210 workplace-related outbreaks, defined as the occurrence of two or more laboratory-confirmed cases occurring within the same 14-day period among coworkers in a common workplace (median cases per outbreak=4; range=2\u201379) involving 15 industry sectors, most frequently in\u00a0manufacturing (20%),\u00a0construction (15%), and\u00a0wholesale\u00a0trade (14%). In total,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/17\/racial-and-ethnic-disparities-among-covid-19-cases-in-workplace-outbreaks-by-industry-sector-utah-march-6-june-5-2020\/\">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":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-9075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9075","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=9075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9076,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9075\/revisions\/9076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9075"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}