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Why are a third of UK COVID-19 patients ethnic minority?

People of colour are being hit disproportionately by this crisis. Why?

By Sunny Hundal
Why are a third of UK COVID-19 patients ethnic minority?
Dr Amged El-Hawrani and Dr Adil El Tayar, the first medics to die of COVID-19
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Here’s a startling statistic: around 35% of critically-ill Coronavirus patients in Britain are of ethnic-minority background, even though we comprise just 14% of the population.

This research by the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICU) is the first of its kind in the world. Should it set off alarm-bells? Am I more susceptible to Covid-19 as someone of South-Asian background? Are my parents? Should we be worried?

Or is this down to racism? Are minorities being discriminated against in the NHS? It's easy to jump to such conclusions but I think that would misrepresent what’s going on here.

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