BAME groups hit harder by Covid-19 than white people, UK study suggests
by Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent from Science | The Guardian on (#51VCM)
Research indicates virus has disproportionate impact on non-white critically ill patients
Early research into the first patients critically ill with Covid-19 in UK hospitals indicates that black and Asian people are more likely to be badly affected by coronavirus than white people.
The Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre found that 35% of almost 2,000 patients were non-white, nearly triple the 13% proportion in the UK population as a whole.
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