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Volume 28, Number 11—November 2022
Research

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Exposure, Disease Susceptibility, and Clinical Outcomes during COVID-19 Pandemic in National Cohort of Adults, United States

McKaylee M. RobertsonComments to Author , Meghana G. Shamsunder, Ellen Brazier, Mekhala Mantravadi, Rebecca Zimba, Madhura S. Rane, Drew A. Westmoreland, Angela M. Parcesepe, Andrew R. Maroko, Sarah G. Kulkarni, Christian Grov, and Denis Nash
Author affiliations: Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, New York, New York, USA (M.M. Robertson, M.G. Shamsunder, E. Brazier, M. Mantravadi, R. Zimba, M.S. Rane, D.A. Westmoreland, A.M. Parcesepe, A.R. Maroko, S.G. Kulkarni, C. Grov, D. Nash); Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York (M.G. Shamsunder, R. Zimba, A.R. Maroko,, C. Grov, D. Nash); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Public Health and Carolina Population Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA (A.M. Parcesepe)

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Table 1

Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of communities, households, and SARS-CoV-2 epidemiology for Chasing COVID study participants, stratified by race and ethnicity, United States, March 28‒April 20, 2020*

Variable Total Hispanic or Latino/a Black non-Hispanic Asian/Pacific Islander non-Hispanic White non-Hispanic Other non-Hispanic p value
Total
6,740 (100.00)
1,308 (19.41)
899 (13.33)
465 (6.90)
3,846 (57.06)
222 (3.30)

Age, y <0.001
Mean (SD) 40.61 (15.28) 35.19 (13.33) 35.31 (12.80) 32.73 (11.95) 44.64 (15.54) 40.74 (14.06)
Median (IQR)
37 (29‒51)
33 (25‒42)
32 (26‒42)
30 (24‒39)
42 (32‒57)
39 (29‒49)

Sex <0.001
M 3,043 (45.15) 568 (43.43) 411 (45.72) 195 (41.94) 1,762 (45.81) 107 (48.2)
F 3,526 (52.31) 718 (54.89) 468 (52.06) 260 (55.91) 1,983 (51.56) 97 (43.69)
Nonbinary
171 (2.54)
22 (1.68)
20 (2.22)
10 (2.15)
101 (2.63)
18 (8.11)

Education <0.001
<12th grade 123 (1.82) 34 (2.6) 25 (2.78) 9 (1.94) 54 (1.4) 1 (0.45)
12th grade/GED 875 (12.98) 282 (21.56) 191 (21.25) 36 (7.74) 330 (8.58) 36 (16.22)
College, 1–3 y 1,889 (28.03) 436 (33.33) 385 (42.83) 100 (21.51) 894 (23.24) 74 (33.33)
College, >4 y
3,853 (57.17)
556 (42.51)
298 (33.15)
320 (68.82)
2,568 (66.77)
111 (50.00)

Employment status <0.001
Employed 4,247 (63.01) 811 (62) 587 (65.29) 267 (57.42) 2,443 (63.52) 139 (62.61)
Out of work 830 (12.31) 206 (15.75) 131 (14.57) 55 (11.83) 402 (10.45) 36 (16.22)
Other
1,663 (24.67)
291 (22.25)
181 (20.13)
143 (30.75)
1,001 (26.03)
47 (21.17)

Income <0.001
<$35,000 1,969 (29.21) 468 (35.78) 415 (46.16) 111 (23.87) 878 (22.83) 97 (43.69)
$35,000‒$49,999 753 (11.17) 180 (13.76) 111 (12.35) 39 (8.39) 394 (10.24) 29 (13.06)
$50,000‒$69,999 959 (14.23) 210 (16.06) 148 (16.46) 58 (12.47) 520 (13.52) 23 (10.36)
$70,000‒$99,999 1,058 (15.70) 179 (13.69) 82 (9.12) 88 (18.92) 683 (17.76) 26 (11.71)
>$100,000 1,793 (26.60) 228 (17.43) 115 (12.79) 142 (30.54) 1,266 (32.92) 42 (18.92)
Do not know
208 (3.09)
43 (3.29)
28 (3.11)
27 (5.81)
105 (2.73)
5 (2.25)

Children <18 y of age <0.001
No 4,564 (67.72) 692 (52.91) 534 (59.40) 314 (67.53) 2,879 (74.86) 145 (65.32)
Yes 2,176 (32.28) 616 (47.09) 365 (40.60) 151 (32.47) 967 (25.14) 77 (34.68)

*Values are no. (%) unless otherwise indicated. Chasing COVID, Communities, Households, and SARS-CoV-2 Epidemiology COVID Cohort Study; GED, general educational development; IQR, interquartile range.

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