PARIS — After COVID-19 first appeared in China late last year, doctors quickly realized what made some patients more vulnerable to the virus than others: age, gender and underlying health problems all
played a part.
Research printed in the Journal of the American Medical Association this month found that COVID-19 mortality was "substantially higher" among black and Latino patients than in white patients. A University of Oxford review of 3,600 COVID-19 test results found that people living in the most deprived areas of Britain were 4 times more likely to test positive for the virus than those living in the richest.
"Yet if you were a health worker on a COVID ward and had symptoms, you would not have had access to a test. That's a dual system that is not good for public health because you need people tested on the front line."It is among those on the front line, including doctors, nurses and care home workers, that the link between COVID-19 mortality and race becomes particularly stark.
Of the 32 doctors and dentists who have died from COVID-19 so far, all but two were non-white -- 94 percent. "Many of these doctors played a very visible role in the care of patients in their communities and for them to die from COVID is a very noticeable loss." But that alone doesn't explain the discrepancy, and Sridhar said social factors likely played a significant role.
In Sweden, which has gone against the grain of strict lockdown procedures, the Public Health Agency reported this month that Somali-born residents were over-represented among those hospitalized with COVID-19. A recent survey conducted by ITV News collected around 4,000 anonymous responses from doctors and nurses, including numerous individuals raising concerns that their BAME status was putting them at higher risk.
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