Coronavirus has 'emphasised' existing health inequalities across the country, a public health expert said today. Professor John Newton repsonded to a Public Health England report published on Tuesday which stated that people from black and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds are "disproportionately" dying with coronavirus.
The report found that age and gender are biggest factors, with older men being the most at risk. But if that criteria was set aside, BAME people are at the highest risk with people of Bangladeshi ethnicity having twice the risk of dying than people who are white British.
Risk of dying among those diagnosed with COVID-19 is also higher in those living in the most deprived areas and is "more than double the least deprived
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