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. 2020 Aug 5;35(10):3126–3128. doi: 10.1007/s11606-020-06083-8

Table 1.

Adjusted Association Between Predictor and Adjustment Variables and COVID-19 Cases and Death per Capita

Percent change in cases per capita (95% CI) P value Percent change in deaths per capita (95% CI) P value
Percent Black + 2.8% (+ 2.1 to + 3.6%) < 0.001 + 2.9% (+ 2.0 to + 3.8%) < 0.001
Percent Hispanic + 2.2% (− 0.3 to + 4.7%) 0.09 + 1.0% (− 0.7 to + 2.7%) 0.24
Median household income ($1000 units) + 0.3% (− 0.7 to + 1.4%) 0.56 + 1.4% (+ 0.0 to + 2.7%) 0.05
Percent poverty + 0.3% (− 1.4 to + 2.1%) 0.71 + 1.9% (− 0.6 to + 4.5%) 0.14
Percent unemployment − 8.5% (− 11.9 to − 5.0%) < 0.001 − 5.5% (− 14.4 to + 4.4%) 0.27

Adjusted for county-level percent female, 65+ years, uninsured, mean household size, urbanicity, air quality, health outcome quartile (to account for underlying health status), total physicians and hospital beds per capita, presence of a stay-at-home policy, number of days from the first county-reported COVID-19 case, and state fixed effects

P < 0.01 was considered to be statistically significant to account for multiple comparisons