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Black and Asian coronavirus patients 'more at risk of severe illness'
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Black and Asian people may be at greater risk of more severe illness from coronavirus due to social, cultural and biological reasons, experts have said.
Data on patients with confirmed Covid-19 from the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC) shows that ethnic minorities are over-represented compared with the general population.
Of 1,966 patients with Covid-19, the ICNARC said 64.8% were white, 13.6% were black, 13.8% were Asian, and 6.6% were described as other.
Duncan Young, professor of intensive care medicine at the University of Oxford, has pointed out that in the UK 2011 census, about 7.5% of the population were Asian and 3.3% black.
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