Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Infections and Deaths Across U.S. Nursing Homes.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

To determine racial/ethnic disparities in weekly counts of new COVID-19 cases and deaths among nursing home residents or staff.

Design

Cross-sectional analysis of national nursing home COVID-19 reports linked to other data. Multivariable two-part models modeled disparities in count of cases or deaths, and logistic regressions modeled disparities in self-reported shortages in staff and personal protective equipment (PPE), across nursing home groups with varying proportions of racial/ethnic minority residents, defined as low-, medium-, medium-high-, and high-proportion groups.

Setting

A total of 12,576 nursing homes nationally.

Participants

None.

Intervention

None.

Measurements

Numbers of incident COVID-19 confirmed cases among

SUBMITTER: Li Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7537079 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature