Migrant status, ethnicity and COVID-19: More accurate European data are greatly needed - Melchior, Maria; Desgrées Du Loû, Annabel; Gosselin, Anne; Datta, Geetanjali D.; Carabali, Mabel; Merckx, Joanna; Kaufman, Jay S. (Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2020)
In past months, systematically higher levels of severe COVID-19 illness and death among individuals belonging to migrant or ethnic minority groups have been reported in several countries, including the US, the UK, Sweden, Brazil, Spain, and South Africa. In particular, racialized populations tend to have less access to testing, higher rates of severe disease, higher mortality rates, and worse sequalae when they survive the infection (1-5). The interacting social, behavioral and biological pathways underlying these disparities are doubtlessly complex, but the hierarchy of social advantage in racialized societies drives health status, exposure, housing, employment and access to healthcare, and undoubtedly plays the dominant role (6).
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