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White Counties Stand Apart: The Primacy of Residential Segregation in COVID-19 and HIV Diagnoses

Emerging epidemiological data suggest that white Americans have a lower risk of acquiring COVID-19. Although many studies have pointed to the role of systemic racism in COVID-19 racial/ethnic disparities, few studies have examined the contribution of racial segregation. Residential segregation is as...

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Autores principales: Millett, Gregorio A., Honermann, Brian, Jones, Austin, Lankiewicz, Elise, Sherwood, Jennifer, Blumenthal, Susan, Sayas, Asal
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Publicado: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7585613/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32833494
http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/apc.2020.0155
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author Millett, Gregorio A.
Honermann, Brian
Jones, Austin
Lankiewicz, Elise
Sherwood, Jennifer
Blumenthal, Susan
Sayas, Asal
author_facet Millett, Gregorio A.
Honermann, Brian
Jones, Austin
Lankiewicz, Elise
Sherwood, Jennifer
Blumenthal, Susan
Sayas, Asal
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description Emerging epidemiological data suggest that white Americans have a lower risk of acquiring COVID-19. Although many studies have pointed to the role of systemic racism in COVID-19 racial/ethnic disparities, few studies have examined the contribution of racial segregation. Residential segregation is associated with differing health outcomes by race/ethnicity for various diseases, including HIV. This commentary documents differing HIV and COVID-19 outcomes and service delivery by race/ethnicity and the crucial role of racial segregation. Using publicly available Census data, we divide US counties into quintiles by percentage of non-Hispanic white residents and examine HIV diagnoses and COVID-19 per 100,000 population. HIV diagnoses decrease as the proportion of white residents increase across US counties. COVID-19 diagnoses follow a similar pattern: Counties with the highest proportion of white residents have the fewest cases of COVID-19 irrespective of geographic region or state political party inclination (i.e., red or blue states). Moreover, comparatively fewer COVID-19 diagnoses have occurred in primarily white counties throughout the duration of the US COVID-19 pandemic. Systemic drivers place racial minorities at greater risk for COVID-19 and HIV. Individual-level characteristics (e.g., underlying health conditions for COVID-19 or risk behavior for HIV) do not fully explain excess disease burden in racial minority communities. Corresponding interventions must use structural- and policy-level solutions to address racial and ethnic health disparities.
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spelling pubmed-75856132020-10-26 White Counties Stand Apart: The Primacy of Residential Segregation in COVID-19 and HIV Diagnoses Millett, Gregorio A. Honermann, Brian Jones, Austin Lankiewicz, Elise Sherwood, Jennifer Blumenthal, Susan Sayas, Asal AIDS Patient Care STDS Clinical and Epidemiologic Research Emerging epidemiological data suggest that white Americans have a lower risk of acquiring COVID-19. Although many studies have pointed to the role of systemic racism in COVID-19 racial/ethnic disparities, few studies have examined the contribution of racial segregation. Residential segregation is associated with differing health outcomes by race/ethnicity for various diseases, including HIV. This commentary documents differing HIV and COVID-19 outcomes and service delivery by race/ethnicity and the crucial role of racial segregation. Using publicly available Census data, we divide US counties into quintiles by percentage of non-Hispanic white residents and examine HIV diagnoses and COVID-19 per 100,000 population. HIV diagnoses decrease as the proportion of white residents increase across US counties. COVID-19 diagnoses follow a similar pattern: Counties with the highest proportion of white residents have the fewest cases of COVID-19 irrespective of geographic region or state political party inclination (i.e., red or blue states). Moreover, comparatively fewer COVID-19 diagnoses have occurred in primarily white counties throughout the duration of the US COVID-19 pandemic. Systemic drivers place racial minorities at greater risk for COVID-19 and HIV. Individual-level characteristics (e.g., underlying health conditions for COVID-19 or risk behavior for HIV) do not fully explain excess disease burden in racial minority communities. Corresponding interventions must use structural- and policy-level solutions to address racial and ethnic health disparities. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2020-10-01 2020-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7585613/ /pubmed/32833494 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/apc.2020.0155 Text en © Gregorio A. Millett, et al., 2020; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. This Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
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Millett, Gregorio A.
Honermann, Brian
Jones, Austin
Lankiewicz, Elise
Sherwood, Jennifer
Blumenthal, Susan
Sayas, Asal
White Counties Stand Apart: The Primacy of Residential Segregation in COVID-19 and HIV Diagnoses
title White Counties Stand Apart: The Primacy of Residential Segregation in COVID-19 and HIV Diagnoses
title_full White Counties Stand Apart: The Primacy of Residential Segregation in COVID-19 and HIV Diagnoses
title_fullStr White Counties Stand Apart: The Primacy of Residential Segregation in COVID-19 and HIV Diagnoses
title_full_unstemmed White Counties Stand Apart: The Primacy of Residential Segregation in COVID-19 and HIV Diagnoses
title_short White Counties Stand Apart: The Primacy of Residential Segregation in COVID-19 and HIV Diagnoses
title_sort white counties stand apart: the primacy of residential segregation in covid-19 and hiv diagnoses
topic Clinical and Epidemiologic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7585613/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32833494
http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/apc.2020.0155
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