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Lancet study: Work needed to minimize exposure of ethnic minority groups to coronavirus – BioPharma-Reporter.com
The clear evidence of increased risk of COVID-19 infection amongst ethnic minority groups, people from Black and Asian backgrounds, is of urgent public health importance,…
Society must work to minimize exposure to the virus in these at-risk groups by facilitating their timely access to healthcare resources, says one of the authors of that study, Dr Shirley Sze, clinical lecturer and specialist registrar in cardiology at the UK’s University of Leicester.
She said it was critical to also target the social and structural disparities that contribute to health inequalities.
The study confirmed that people of Black ethnicity are twice as likely to be infected with COVID-19…
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