Ethnicity profiles of COVID-19 admissions and outcomes

A recent letter in this journal by Tang and his colleagues compared hospitalised, community and staff Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection rates during the early phase of the evolving COVID-19 epidemic,1 but an emerging factor is the ethnicity of individuals. In this letter, we report our investigation into the potential associations between ethnicity and COVID-19. Despite only 15% of the UK population being from black and ethnic minority (BAME) backgrounds,2 recent data has identified that 34% of patients admitted to intensive care (ITU) with COVID-19 belong to BAME groups.
Source: Journal of Infection - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research