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Tag: Ethnic minority

UK’s colour-blind vaccine allocation putting ethnic minorities at higher risk

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Omitting ethnic minorities from the vaccine priority list is putting these groups at a significantly higher risk of COVID-19 illness and death. Public health doctors, writing in a commentary published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, say that the UK’s colour-blind vaccination model disregards the unequal impact of the pandemic on minority […]

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Vital to identify factors behind COVID-19 deaths

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Responding to the review into factors impacting health outcomes from COVID-19, Dr Layla McCay, director at the NHS Confederation, which represents organisations across the healthcare sector, said: “The graver impact that coronavirus could be having on people from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups, including frontline workers has been a key concern of health leaders […]

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