{"id":9477,"date":"2021-04-28T13:32:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T20:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9477"},"modified":"2021-04-29T13:33:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T20:33:09","slug":"actual-racial-ethnic-disparities-in-covid-19-mortality-for-the-non-hispanic-black-compared-to-non-hispanic-white-population-in-35-us-states-and-their-association-with-structural-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/28\/actual-racial-ethnic-disparities-in-covid-19-mortality-for-the-non-hispanic-black-compared-to-non-hispanic-white-population-in-35-us-states-and-their-association-with-structural-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Actual Racial\/Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality for the Non-Hispanic Black Compared to Non-Hispanic White Population in 35 US States and Their Association with Structural Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A study using CDC data to examine COVID-19 mortality rates for non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic Black populations across US states found that structural racism was associated with increased mortality in Black populations. Using a state-level index of structural racism and adjusting for age, each standard deviation increase in the racism index was associated with a 0.26 increase in the ratio of COVID-19 morality rates among Black compared to white populations. The authors note that crude death rate ratios may result in substantial underestimation of the true disparities in COVID-19 mortality, and that structural racism should be considered a root cause of the COVID-19 mortality disparity by race.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Siegel et al.\u00a0(Apr 27, 2021). Actual Racial\/Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality for the Non-Hispanic Black Compared to Non-Hispanic White Population in 35 US States and Their Association with Structural Racism. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s40615-021-01028-1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s40615-021-01028-1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study using CDC data to examine COVID-19 mortality rates for non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic Black populations across US states found that structural racism was associated with increased mortality in Black populations. Using a state-level index of structural racism and adjusting for age, each standard deviation increase in the racism index was associated with a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/28\/actual-racial-ethnic-disparities-in-covid-19-mortality-for-the-non-hispanic-black-compared-to-non-hispanic-white-population-in-35-us-states-and-their-association-with-structural-racism\/\">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-9477","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\/9477","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=9477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9478,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477\/revisions\/9478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9477"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}