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Largest study so far of more than 17 million adults in England confirms that minority ethnic groups had a higher risk of testing positive, hospitalisation, admission to intensive care units (ICU), and death from COVID-19 compared with white groups, even after accounting for other factors known to increase risk like deprivation, occupation, household size and underlying health conditions. ....
South Asians in England at greater risk in second COVID wave, new study finds SECTIONS Last Updated: May 01, 2021, 03:28 PM IST Share Synopsis Led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), the study published in the medical journal Lancet on Friday accounted for a large number of explanatory variables such as household size, social factors and health conditions across all ethnic groups and at different stages of COVID-19, from testing to mortality. Reuters 3,176,404.0 Minority ethnic groups in general and South Asians, in particular, had a higher risk of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 and of COVID-19 related hospitalisations, intensive care (ICU) admissions and deaths during the second wave of the pandemic in the UK compared to the first, according to a new observational study of 17 million people. ....
People in the UK’s south Asian communities were more likely to test positive for Covid, become severely ill and die than any other minority ethnic group in the country’s second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new study. During the first wave from February to September 2020, the paper in the Lancet medical journal found, all minority ethnic groups had a higher risk than the white community of testing positive for Covid, ending up. ....
Read More “It’s concerning to see that the disparity widened among South Asian groups,” said the study’s lead author, Dr Rohini Mathur of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. “This highlights an urgent need to find effective prevention measures that fit with the needs of the UK’s ethnically diverse population,” she said. Researchers said the typically larger household size of South Asian groups was one factor that might contribute to the disparity. Dr Mathur said multi-generational households could increase the risk of exposure to Covid-19, although she said they also offered “valuable informal care networks” and helped to facilitate access to health care. ....