Why are black and Asian people at greater risk of coronavirus? Here’s what we found


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A Blog About Health In Times Of Austerity Why are black and Asian people at greater risk of coronavirus? Here’s what we found by S Vittal Katikireddi and Claire Niedzwiedz Jun 17, 2020 Image: DSC02879 from Karen Eliot's Flickr PhotoStream The coronavirus pandemic has markedly increased awareness of health inequalities. Researchers have long understood that ethnicity and socioeconomic conditions play a major role in influencing our health , but the pandemic has illuminated these stark inequalities and the need for urgent action to tackle them. In our research, we investigated how risk of COVID-19 differed by ethnicity and socioeconomic background...