A study in BMCPublicHealth finds that adults of South Asian background have a 63% more risk of COVID-19 mortality, 53% more risk of COVID-19-related hospital admission, and 67% more risk of ICU admission than the general population in England and Canada.
Establishing a nuanced understanding of ethnic inequalities in COVID-19-related outcomes is needed to reduce the burden of COVID-19 and may permit rapid public health interventions should modifiable factors be identified.
We utilised a 3-level ethnicity classification comprised South Asian , Chinese, and ‘General Population’ , based on the UK Office for National Statistics Census ethnic classification. In the Ontario linked healthcare administrative database, ethnicity was ascertained based on surnames, using lists that have been previously validated in this population to identify the two largest ethnic groups in Canada: South Asian and Chinese [].
The analyses were adjusted for demographic, clinical, and lifestyle factors (Supplementary Material; Tables S
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