The people who are most at risk of dying from coronavirus have been revealed in a mammoth new study – and age is far from the only factor.
of 17 million people has revealed there multiple other factors that put people in the firing line of COVID-19 – including race and social disadvantage.
This new study took the primary care records of 17.2 million Brits and pseudonymously linked them to almost 11,000 coronavirus-related deaths. More than 550,000 people have died from coronavirus since the pandemic began. Picture: Bryan R. Smith/AFPPeople wear protective suits while attending the burial of a loved. Picture: Orlando Sierra/AFPBlack and South Asian people, and those of mixed background, were 1.62 to 1.88 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than white people, after taking into account their prior medical conditions, the authors said.
“The underlying causes of higher risk of COVID-19 death among those from non-white backgrounds, and deprived areas, require further exploration – we would suggest collecting data on occupational exposure and living conditions as first steps.”
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