{"id":21018,"date":"2020-07-27T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T22:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/27\/system-is-so-broken-covid-19-devastates-pacific-islander-communities-in-us"},"modified":"2020-07-27T07:00:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T22:00:35","slug":"pacific-islanders-in-us-hospitalised-with-covid-19-at-up-to-10-times-the-rate-of-other-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21018","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Islanders in US hospitalised with Covid-19 at up to 10 times the rate of other groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many islanders in America live in large families and tight-knit communities, and work in frontline service industries, increasing their risk of exposure <\/p>\n<p>Pacific islanders living in the US are being hospitalised with Covid-19 at up to 10 times the rate of some other racial groups.<\/p>\n<p>The US is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/jul\/24\/us-congress-coronavirus-relief-bill-unemployment\">most infected country on earth<\/a>, with more than 4 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 and nearly 150,000 deaths, and the 1.5 million Pacific islanders living there are massively overrepresented in infection and hospitalisation rates.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/27\/system-is-so-broken-covid-19-devastates-pacific-islander-communities-in-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many islanders in America live in large families and tight-knit communities, and work in frontline service industries, increasing their risk of exposure Pacific islanders living in the US are being hospitalised with Covid-19 at up to 10 times the rate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":865,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,914,602,874,282,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-marshall-islands","category-pacific-islands","category-south-pacific","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/865"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21019,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21018\/revisions\/21019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}