Covid-19: Increased risk among ethnic minorities is largely due to poverty and social disparities, review finds - bmj.m4099.full.pdf
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Covid-19: Increased risk among ethnic minorities is largely due topoverty and social disparities, review findsGareth IacobucciMost of the increased risk of infection and death fromcovid-19 among people from ethnic minorities isexplained by factors such as occupation, wherepeople live, their household composition, andpre-existing health conditions, a government reviewhas concluded.1But the first quarterly report from the government’sRace Disparity Unit (RDU), based in the CabinetOffice, notes that a part of the excess risk“remainsunexplained”in some groups such as black men, andit said that further work was needed to understandwhich factors may be causing the disparities.The report summarises progress towards tacklingcovid-19 health inequalities since Public HealthEngland published a review on 2 June setting out thedisparities in risks and outcomes.2Since then theRDU has been working with the equalities minister,Kemi Badenoch, across government, with the Officefor National Statistics, and with academics toexamine what is driving these disparities and how totackle them.Raghib Ali, one of the government’s new expertadvisers on covid and ethnicity, said there was“goodevidence”that most excess risk among ethnicminorities was explained by risk factors other thanethnicity
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