Health
Covid-19 deaths must prompt better healthcare for people with learning disabilities – The Guardian
The government, NHS and health and social care providers must act to tackle health inequalities
People with learning disabilities are much more likely to die from coronavirus. And black and Asian people with learning disabilities are even more likely to die from coronavirus.
This isnt because the virus targets people with learning disabilities. It is because society fails to do enough to support the health and wellbeing of those at the sharp end of structural and health inequalities.
A Public Health England report published last week found that people with learning disabilities were six times…
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