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Covid-19 and ethnic minorities
Are we responsible for the racial inequalities of covid-19?
BMJ 2020; 370 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m2873 (Published 22 July 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;370:m2873
- Varathagini Balakumar, third year medical student1,
- Arangan Kirubakaran, foundation trainee year 22,
- Shabnam Tariq, third year medical student1
- 1School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF14 4YS, UK
- 2Darent Valley Hospital, Dartford, UK
- balakumarv{at}cardiff.ac.uk
The covid-19 pandemic has revealed the depth of social and racial inequalities in the United Kingdom. These inequalities existed long before the pandemic, but they have taken on a greater significance in the past few months. Perhaps this is a direct result of the death of George Floyd and the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests, which have brought inequalities and institutional bias to the forefront of public consciousness. The NHS, for all its merits, should not be …
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