Who Said Pandemics Don't Discriminate?

Over recent weeks there has been a flood of information and publications highlighting the disproportionate impact of Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), caused by Severe Acute Respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has had and is continuing to have on the BAME community. 

In early April 2020 the Intensive Care National Audit discovered that out of nearly 2,000 critically ill patients, 35 per cent were BAME  despite these groups only making up 14.5 per cent of the English population. 

In mid-April ITV published figures from NHS England indicating that 16.2 per cent of Covid-19-related deaths were from BAME ethnicities.  BAME groups are also more likely to die in intensive care.