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The risk of dying from COVID-19 is higher among minority groups in the UK than the rest of the population, according to a new report. The report points to racism as an underlying explanation.
A mural dedicated to the British NHS healthcare system in London. Stock Photography.
“The effects of covid are not random, but predictable and avoidable; they are the result of decades of structural injustice, inequality and discrimination that divides our society,” writes report author Doreen Lawrence.
Lawrence, a member of the British Labor House since 2013, has been working for black rights in Britain since her son was killed in a racist attack in 1993.
The report, which is based on government data collected since the beginning of the pandemic, shows, among other things, that black Britons are four times more likely to die from COVID-19 than white Britons, defined in the report as people. with British, Irish, Roma and Irish travelers. or “other white origin”.
If the entire population had had the same death rate as the black part of the population, the total death toll would have more than doubled.
The report also shows that 68 per cent of the state health workers who died from COVID belonged to the group “black, Asian and other ethnic minorities” (in the UK called black, Asian and ethnic minority, abbreviated BAME).
“Genetics alone cannot explain why all ethnic minority groups, each with large genetic variation, have a higher risk of dying from COVID-19 than the majority white population,” continues report author Doreen Lawrence.
“The people of BAME have been overexposed, without adequate protection, stigmatized and overlooked during the ongoing pandemic, and that is part of something that has been going on for generations,” he says.
