As in U.S., Covid-19 Risk in Britain Is Higher for Minority Groups - News Summed Up

As in U.S., Covid-19 Risk in Britain Is Higher for Minority Groups


LONDON—British researchers are reporting repeatedly that some ethnic groups are more vulnerable to Covid-19 than the country’s white majority, a finding mirrored in the U.S. that doctors say is laying bare longstanding inequalities in health between communities. The most persuasive reason for the disparity, doctors and researchers say, is that black and other ethnic minority groups in the U.K. are on average poorer than whites and more likely to live in places or work in occupations in which the risk of exposure to the new...


Source: Wall Street Journal June 29, 2020 11:48 UTC



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