This never fails to fascinate me, even though the numbers say otherwise, the BBC can't leave the race-card in the pack.
I suppose the publicly-funded broadcaster's Diversity Department demands it!
I suppose the publicly-funded broadcaster's Diversity Department demands it!
Quote:Ethnic breakdown of London deaths revealedBBC: (More bending the knee in the link.)
'New NHS data has revealed ethnic breakdowns among the patients in London hospitals who have died with coronavirus.
Black people account for 13% of the city's population but 16% of deaths.
Epidemiologist Dr Shikta Das said there was a high rate of ethnic minority people among front line workers, who were
exposed to greater risk.
The first image on the page and it's not Epidemiologist Dr Shikta Das. It's Samuel Akinsanya.
But Dr Das said it was difficult to draw conclusions as data needed to be more specific to areas of London.
London has seen nearly 5,000 deaths linked to the virus. Dr Das said she believed one factor was that ethnic minorities
were over-represented in many key worker industries and were at a greater risk of becoming infected.
"Viral load is how much you are exposed to an infectious disease," she explained.
"Twenty per cent of all NHS workforce are from an ethnic minority background. The figure for doctors is 44%.
"In this situation the BAME group is a doctor, a nurse, a technician, bus drivers, shelf stackers, care workers - all these
groups of people are getting more exposed to Covid directly.
"Bus drivers were meeting people all of the time, doctors and nurses cannot care for a patient 2m away from them
"The more exposure you have the more lethal that dosage is. So it is no surprise that these people are dying"
Figures also showed that only 1.3% of London patients who died were under the age of 40, while 87% were aged at least
60 and just under half were 80 or older...'
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