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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 3

Effects of potential SARS-CoV-2 exposure, susceptibility to COVID-19 complications, and access to healthcare on odds of seroconversion (n = 3,422) and hospitalization (n = 6,740) for Chasing COVID study participants, United States, March 28‒April 20, 2020*

Variable Seroconversion
 Hospitalization
No. (%) OR (95% CI) aOR (95% CI) No. (%) OR (95% CI) aOR (95% CI)
Overall
 161 (4.70)
401 (5.95)
Potential exposure†
Less exposure risk 86 (3.73) Referent Referent 178 (4.30) Referent Referent
More exposure risk
 75 (6.73)
 1.86 (1.35‒2.56)
 1.64 (1.17‒2.30)
223 (8.59)
 2.09 (1.71‒ 2.57)
 1.70 (1.37‒2.12)
Susceptibility‡
Less susceptible 130 (4.95) Referent Referent 258 (4.88) Referent Referent
More susceptible
 31 (3.90)
 0.78 (0.52‒1.16)
 0.82 (0.54‒1.24)
143 (9.84)
 2.13 (1.72‒ 2.63)
 2.35 (1.88‒2.92)
Access to healthcare§
Less barriers 93 (4.21) Referent Referent 130 (3.52) Referent Referent
More barriers 68 (5.61) 1.35 (0.98‒1.86) 1.22 (0.87‒1.71) 271 (8.89) 2.67 (2.15‒3.31) 2.28 (1.81‒2.87)

*aOR, adjusted OR; Chasing COVID, Communities, Households, and SARS-CoV-2 Epidemiology COVID Cohort Study; OR, odds ratio. †Model adjusted for age, presence of children in the household, employment, income, race/ethnicity. ‡Model adjusted for employment, income, race/ethnicity. §Model adjusted for age, employment, sex, income, race/ethnicity.

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