Institutional racism is to blame for a lack of funding to investigate ethnic disparities in healthcare in the decade before the pandemic, the Covid inquiry has heard.
That the UK had never collected any survey data specifically on older ethnic minority people was “particularly concerning”, said James Nazroo, professor of sociology at the University of Manchester.
The inquiry also heard how government decisions at the start of the pandemic “disregarded existing economic, social and health vulnerabilities experienced by ethnic minority groups”.
