Community-Level Factors Associated with COVID-19 Cases and Testing Equity in King County, Washington.

ABSTRACT: Individual-level Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) case data suggest that certain populations may be more impacted by the pandemic. However, few studies have considered the communities from which positive cases are prevalent, and the variations in testing rates between communities. In this study, we assessed community factors that were associated with COVID-19 testing and test positivity at the census tract level for the Seattle, King County, Washington region at the summer peak of infection in July 2020. Multivariate Poisson regression was used to estimate confirmed case counts, adjusted for testing numbers, which were associated with socioeconomic status (SES) indicators such as poverty, educational attainment, transportation cost, as well as with communities with high proportions of p

SUBMITTER: Seto E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7767300 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature