Why are so many ethnic minorities dying in the UK and US?

Published: May 7, 2020, 1:30 a.m.

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In news reports and newspapers, pictures of British healthcare workers who have lost their lives to Covid-19 sit side by side.

And if you look at those faces one thing stands out clearly. Of the 119 cases of NHS deaths more than two thirds are black or an ethnic minority - yet they only make up 20% of the workforce. Figures from the National Health Service in England show a disproportionate number of Covid-19 deaths are amongst these groups. And it\\u2019s not just in the UK.

In the United States on available data \\u2013 it\\u2019s a similar story with African Americans accounting for many more deaths in a community that make up 13% of the population.

So what\\u2019s going on?

Kavita Puri speaks with:\\nDr Kamlesh Khunti, Professor of Primary Care Diabetes and Vascular Medicine at the University of Leicester\\nProfessor Kathy Rowan, Director of the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre\\nDr Consuelo Wilkins, Vice President for Health Equity at Vanderbilt University Medical Center\\nProf John Watkins, Professor Epidemiology, Cardiff University/Public Health Wales

(Ambulance workers transport patients to St Thomas' Hospital in Westminster, London, UK. Photo credit: Ollie Millington/Getty Images)

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