Covid-19: Two thirds of healthcare workers who have died were from ethnic minorities

Two thirds of healthcare workers who have died from covid-19 were from an ethnic minority background, and at least half were not born in the UK, researchers have found. Tim Cook, professor of anaesthesia at the Royal United Hospital Bath and the University of Bristol, and colleagues looked at the deaths of 106 healthcare workers, 63% of whom were from an ethnic minority background, and they reported their findings in the Health Service Journal .1 Eighteen of the 19 doctors and dentists who have died from covid-19 were from ethnic minority backgrounds. The same was true of 71% of the 35 nurses and …