BAME communities are being put at risk by UK's 'colour-blind' Covid vaccine strategy, experts warn
3 years, 10 months ago

BAME communities are being put at risk by UK's 'colour-blind' Covid vaccine strategy, experts warn

Daily Mail  

Black and ethnic minority people are being put at risk by the UK's 'colour-blind' Covid vaccination strategy, experts warned today. Studies show Covid death rates are highest in BAME communities, which experts say is because ethnic minorities are more likely to get infected in the first place because they live in deprived areas, use public transport, work public-facing jobs and live in overcrowded and multi-generational homes. Pictured above is a woman being vaccinated in Darlington on March 1 Professor Azeem Majeed, a primary care expert at Imperial College London, said BAME communities should have been prioritised after the over-70s got their first dose Writing in the journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, scientists today called on ministers to prioritise jabs for BAME communities. 'The UK’s colour-blind vaccination model disregards the unequal impact of the pandemic on minority ethnic groups, rendering it an enabler of structures that are known to systematically disadvantage BAME communities.'

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‘Almost 180-degree turnaround’: More Black Americans open to jabs
3 years, 9 months ago

‘Almost 180-degree turnaround’: More Black Americans open to jabs

Al Jazeera  

Community leader credits drop in coronavirus vaccine hesitancy among Black people in US to effective outreach. According to the late March poll by the Associated Press news agency and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, about 24 percent of Black people said they would probably or definitely not get vaccinated. Dr Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health …

Britain is leading the way on race relations, according to report
3 years, 9 months ago

Britain is leading the way on race relations, according to report

The Telegraph  

Britain is a model for race relations and inequality between different ethnic groups may be caused by other factors, a landmark report has found. The report concludes that while Britain is not a “post-racial society”, the success of ethnic minorities in education and the economy should be a “beacon” for other white-majority countries. The Commission warns there are consequences to …

UK’s ‘colour-blind’ vaccine strategy puts ethnic minorities at risk, experts warn
3 years, 9 months ago

UK’s ‘colour-blind’ vaccine strategy puts ethnic minorities at risk, experts warn

The Independent  

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But in a commentary published by the Journal of the Royal Society …

TV ad to encourage black people and ethnic minorities to get Covid vaccine
3 years, 10 months ago

TV ad to encourage black people and ethnic minorities to get Covid vaccine

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An advert featuring black and British-Asian celebrities is set to air …

NHS unveils blueprint to tackle Covid vaccine hesitancy among BAME Brits
3 years, 10 months ago

NHS unveils blueprint to tackle Covid vaccine hesitancy among BAME Brits

Daily Mail  

The NHS has unveiled a 'blueprint' to improve coronavirus vaccine uptake among ethnic minority groups. Research this week suggested white NHS staff are almost twice as likely as black medics to get the Covid vaccine. The NHS 'blueprint' for fighting the dual epidemics of Covid and disinformation includes the following: Healthcare workers sent into communities to talk directly to those …

‘Not rocket science’: US experts demand COVID vaccine race data
3 years, 11 months ago

‘Not rocket science’: US experts demand COVID vaccine race data

Al Jazeera  

More data is needed to ensure hard-hit communities of colour are not left behind in vaccine drive, health experts say. When the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in the United States last year, public health officials and community experts warned that Black and other people of colour would be disproportionately hard hit. In a report released on February 1, …

AP Analysis: Racial disparity seen in US vaccination drive
3 years, 11 months ago

AP Analysis: Racial disparity seen in US vaccination drive

Associated Press  

A racial gap has opened up in the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination drive, with Black Americans in many places lagging behind whites in receiving shots, an Associated Press analysis shows. “It’s frustrating and challenging,” said Dr. Michelle Fiscus, who runs Tennessee’s vaccination program, which is doubling the doses sent to some hard-hit rural counties but is meeting with deep-rooted mistrust among …

Do policy makers really have the will to reduce Covid deaths caused by inequality?
4 years ago

Do policy makers really have the will to reduce Covid deaths caused by inequality?

The Independent  

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Covid-19: Death toll of UK Indians crosses 1,000
4 years, 1 month ago

Covid-19: Death toll of UK Indians crosses 1,000

Hindustan Times  

The death toll from Covid-19 of patients categorised as ‘Indian’ in official figures crossed the grim milestone of 1,000 on Friday, making the community the worst-hit among non-whites and complementing studies that showed non-whites have been disproportionately hit by the virus. Health professionals of Indian heritage who passed away include Jitendra Kumar Rathod, Manjeet Singh Riyat, Krishan Arora, Rajesh Kalraiya, …

Eleven charts that show extent of racial inequality in the UK
4 years, 6 months ago

Eleven charts that show extent of racial inequality in the UK

The Independent  

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Stop-and-search rates between 2018 and 2019 show that black …

Racism contributing to coronavirus deaths among ethnic minorities, leaked official report says
4 years, 6 months ago

Racism contributing to coronavirus deaths among ethnic minorities, leaked official report says

The Independent  

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Coronavirus tracked: How Covid-19 deaths in the UK compare by race and ethnicity
4 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus tracked: How Covid-19 deaths in the UK compare by race and ethnicity

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A report from Public Health England in early June found that the death risk …

Minorities need better access to care for countries get better control of the pandemic
4 years, 7 months ago

Minorities need better access to care for countries get better control of the pandemic

CNN  

CNN — People who are of African descent and other ethnic minorities and indigenous populations should have better access to culturally relevant health care, if countries are ever going to get a better handle on the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the Pan American Health Organization. The organization put out guidelines Monday to help health care systems in the Americas better …

More than half of pregnant women in UK hospitals with Covid-19 are minorities, study finds
4 years, 7 months ago

More than half of pregnant women in UK hospitals with Covid-19 are minorities, study finds

CNN  

London CNN — More than half of pregnant women admitted to UK hospitals with Covid-19 were from black or other ethnic minority groups, according to a national study published Monday in the BMJ medical journal. Researchers led by the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Population Health warned that although transmission of the virus to infants was uncommon and most …

Black Lives Matter: How to support anti-racist organisations in the UK if you can’t donate
4 years, 7 months ago

Black Lives Matter: How to support anti-racist organisations in the UK if you can’t donate

The Independent  

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UK study claims minorities at higher risk of COVID-19 death than white Britons, but doesn't answer why
4 years, 7 months ago

UK study claims minorities at higher risk of COVID-19 death than white Britons, but doesn't answer why

Firstpost  

The study didn’t account for factors such as obesity and other conditions that increase the risk of death with COVID-19, or for the jobs done by those who died. People in Britain from ethnic minorities have died in larger relative numbers with COVID-19 than their white compatriots, according to a study by British health authorities published Tuesday. The Public Health …

People from ethnic minorities are up to 50% more likely to die from coronavirus than white people, UK report finds
4 years, 7 months ago

People from ethnic minorities are up to 50% more likely to die from coronavirus than white people, UK report finds

CNN  

CNN — People from the UK’s ethnic minority communities are up to 50% more likely to die with coronavirus than their white British peers, a government review has found. In an address to parliament later Tuesday, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: “Being black or from a minority ethnic background is a major risk factor.” Hancock admitted that there was …

Why is coronavirus killing BAME Britons?
4 years, 7 months ago

Why is coronavirus killing BAME Britons?

Al Jazeera  

UK public health inquiry explores whether discrimination is partly to blame. According to the UK’s Office for National Statistics black people are four times more likely to die from COVID-19 than white people. Under growing political pressure, the British government and National Health Service have launched a public health inquiry with initial findings due at the end of May. Research …

Research suggests black and minority patients are more likely to die from COVID-19. We need to know why
4 years, 7 months ago

Research suggests black and minority patients are more likely to die from COVID-19. We need to know why

ABC  

"We're all in this together." "We're seeing a group of younger black and Asian ethnic minority individuals coming into hospital with fairly severe disease needing to go to intensive care," he said. Number of deaths in high migrant communities are soaring In Australia, recording of the ethnicity of people being tested was initially "unclear and inaccurate", according to Professor Brown, …

The disparity in coronavirus deaths shows we must tackle the ​structural inequalities in our society
4 years, 7 months ago

The disparity in coronavirus deaths shows we must tackle the ​structural inequalities in our society

The Independent  

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Depending upon which figures you look at, black, Asian and minority ethnic …

Data shows virus death risk twice as high for black Britons
4 years, 8 months ago

Data shows virus death risk twice as high for black Britons

Associated Press  

LONDON — Almost all ethnic minorities in Britain are at greater risk of dying with the coronavirus, and black men and black women are nearly twice as likely to die than white individuals, according to an analysis by the national statistics agency. The analysis found that along with black Britons, people of Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Indian, and mixed ethnicity have a …

UK coronavirus: Black people four times more likely to die from Covid-19 than white people, ONS data shows
4 years, 8 months ago

UK coronavirus: Black people four times more likely to die from Covid-19 than white people, ONS data shows

CNN  

London CNN — Black people in the UK are four times more likely to die from Covid-19 than white people and a number of other ethnic groups are also at an increased risk, according to new data released Thursday. Even after taking into account age, demographic factors and measures of self-reported health problems, black people were still almost twice as …

UK: Black Africans dying at much higher rate than white Britons
4 years, 8 months ago

UK: Black Africans dying at much higher rate than white Britons

Al Jazeera  

Exposure to infection and health risks combined with social inequalities could explain alarming figures, IFS says. Coronavirus patients from Black African backgrounds are dying in United Kingdom hospitals at more than three times the rate of white British people, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. “After stripping out the role of age and geography, Bangladeshi hospital fatalities are twice …

Indians, Ethnic Minority Medics in UK at High Risk of Contracting Covid-19, Says Survey
4 years, 8 months ago

Indians, Ethnic Minority Medics in UK at High Risk of Contracting Covid-19, Says Survey

News 18  

London: Medical and healthcare professionals from Indian and the minority ethnic backgrounds fall into a higher risk category of contracting the deadly coronavirus in the UK, a first-of-its-kind survey among medics in the country has concluded. The Research and Innovation Forum of the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin conducted the week-long online survey between April 14 and 21 …

Coronavirus disproportionately affecting Bame communities in UK, new figures show
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus disproportionately affecting Bame communities in UK, new figures show

The Independent  

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Coronavirus: Why some racial groups are more vulnerable
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus: Why some racial groups are more vulnerable

BBC  

Coronavirus: Why some racial groups are more vulnerable Getty Images An army sergeant speaks to a patient at the Javits New York Medical Station, which supports local hospitals in New York City From discrimination to language, a variety of factors are affecting different groups’ vulnerability to coronavirus — with sometimes devastating results. Black US households in 2018 were twice as …

Why are ethnic minorities more vulnerable to coronavirus?
4 years, 8 months ago

Why are ethnic minorities more vulnerable to coronavirus?

Al Jazeera  

Experts say health issues, socioeconomic inequality and discrimination among factors, as UK government announces review. “It may be a genetic element where certain people from a particular region in the world are predisposed to succumbing to the virus.” According to a tally by Al Jazeera, some 70 percent of at least 50 healthcare workers who have so far died of …

Coronavirus economic effects hitting ethnic minorities and young people hardest
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus economic effects hitting ethnic minorities and young people hardest

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “There is a debt owed to these communities by the …

UK coronavirus: are minority communities disproportionately affected by the virus? Lack of public data makes it difficult to answer.
4 years, 8 months ago

UK coronavirus: are minority communities disproportionately affected by the virus? Lack of public data makes it difficult to answer.

CNN  

London CNN — It’s said the coronavirus does not discriminate. On Saturday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock addressed the fact that a number of health workers who have died from coronavirus were from “minority ethnic backgrounds,” saying on BBC Breakfast he found it “really upsetting.” In an interview with the British daily The Guardian, the head of the the doctors’ union, …

Coronavirus: BAME groups more likely to be worse affected by Covid-19 than white people
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus: BAME groups more likely to be worse affected by Covid-19 than white people

The Independent  

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Research into the first British patients to contract …

Third of critically ill COVID-19 UK patients from BME backgrounds
4 years, 9 months ago

Third of critically ill COVID-19 UK patients from BME backgrounds

Al Jazeera  

Release of figures comes amid wider concerns coronavirus is exacerbating health inequalities in the country. London, United Kingdom – A third of critically ill COVID-19 patients in the United Kingdom are from Black and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, according to new data. Of the 2,249 critical patients registered in the UK up to April 3, 13.8 percent were recorded as “Asian”, …

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