ABSTRACT
On June 2, 2020, Public Health England (PHE) reported on the disparities in the risk and outcomes of COVID-19. After adjusting for sex, age, deprivation, and region, people from a Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) background had a higher risk of death from COVID-19 than White British people. PHE refers to a study from the COVID-19 Clinical Information Network (CO-CIN), led by Harrison and colleagues, of the difference in survival from COVID-19 associated with membership of an ethnic group. However, in CO-CIN’s analysis of more than 14,000 patients with COVID-19 admitted to UK hospitals, BAME patients were more likely to have diabetes, but less likely to have other comorbidities such as chronic cardiac, pulmonary, kidney, and neurological disease, malignancy, and dementia.
