Covid-19 and ethnic minorities: an urgent agenda for overdue action

Khunti, Kamlesh; Platt, Lucinda; Routen, Ash; Abbasi, Kamran

doi:10.1136/bmj.m2503

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“…There are growing concerns that the pandemic's impact on education could exacerbate preexisting low-income, black, and Hispanic achievement gaps (Dorn et al 2020). Health inequities confronting these minorities should also be taken seriously (Khunti et al 2020).…”

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The Immediate Impact of COVID-19 on Postsecondary Teaching and Learning

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Chang

Chung

et al. 2020

The Professional Geographer

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and colleges worldwide have quickly moved campus-based classes to virtual spaces due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article explores the impact of this sudden transition of learning and teaching based on experiences and evidence from six institutions across three countries. Our findings suggest that although online and remote learning was a satisfactory experience for some students, various inequities were involved. Many students lacked appropriate devices for practical work and encountered difficulties in securing suitable housing and workspace. Students were stressed, and faculty were, too, especially those in precarious employment. The lack of fieldwork and access to laboratories created special challenges. We are concerned that the lack of hands-on experience could cause a decline in enrollments and the number of majors in geography over the next few years. This issue must be addressed by making introductory courses as engaging as possible. It is too early to determine the extent to which online and remote learning can replace campus-based, face-toface geography education once the pandemic ends, but the new academic year of 2020-2021 will be revealing. Nevertheless, the COVID-19 crisis has revealed preexisting problems and inequalities that will need our collective effort to address, regardless of the pandemic's trajectory.

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Section: Student and Faculty Inequitiesmentioning

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The Immediate Impact of COVID-19 on Postsecondary Teaching and Learning

Day

Chang

Chung

et al. 2020

The Professional Geographer

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“…This is reflective of the poor socio-economic situation in Nepal. One reason behind such predominance among foreign migrant workers could be that, until recently, the government had prioritized testing mainly of those persons who have recently returned from abroad and their contacts [5].…”

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Characteristics and outcomes of hospitalized adults with COVID-19 in Nepal: a multicenter, prospective cohort study

Chaudhary¹,

Singh

Paudel³

et al. 2020

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Introduction There is limited data on clinical course and outcomes of hospitalized adults with COVID-19 in Nepal. Thus, it is imperative to characterize the features of this disease in the domestic context. Methodology We identified all adult patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 admitted to five different hospitals in Nepal from June 15 to July 15, 2020. We collected epidemiological, socio-cultural and clinicopathologic data, and stratified the patients based on their symptom status. Results The study included 220 patients with an overall median age of 31.5 (25-37) years, and 181 (82.3%) were males. 159 (72.3%) were asymptomatic, and 163 (74.1%) were imported cases. Of 217 patients with the available data, 110 (50.7%) reported their annual household income less than 2000 US dollars, and 122 (56.2%) practiced Pranayama (yogic rhythmic breathing techniques) regularly. Eight patients (3.6%) required supplemental oxygen and two patients (0.9%) died. None of the patients who practiced Pranayama regularly required supplemental oxygen. Compared to asymptomatic patients, symptomatic patients had greater proportion of females (31.1% vs. 12.6%, p=0.001), imported cases (85.2% vs. 69.8%, p=0.02), illiterates (26.8% vs. 12.1%, p=0.01), alcohol users (43.3% vs. 24.5%, p=0.01), patients feeling stigmatized by society (45.8% vs. 22.6%, p=0.001), and had higher platelet count (253 x 10^9/L vs. 185 x10^9/L, p=0.02). Conclusions Most cases were imported, asymptomatic young males, with very few deaths. Pranayama practice was associated with protection against severe COVID-19, but more data is needed to substantiate this. The association of platelets count with symptom status in the Nepalese population needs further exploration.

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“…The circumstances around publication of the Public Health England report are a perfect illustration of the problem at hand. The apparent delay in publication and potential suppression described by Khunti and colleagues1 is striking: if we were not in the middle of worldwide anti-racism protests, would this report have gone quietly unnoticed?…”

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Are we responsible for the racial inequalities of covid-19?

Balakumar

Kirubakaran

Tariq

2020

BMJ

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The covid-19 pandemic has revealed the depth of social and racial inequalities in the United Kingdom. These inequalities existed long before the pandemic, but they have taken on a greater significance in the past few months. Perhaps this is a direct result of the death of George Floyd and the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests, which have brought inequalities and institutional bias to the forefront of public consciousness. The NHS, for all its merits, should not be exempt from scrutiny.

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Covid-19 and ethnic minorities: an urgent agenda for overdue action

Abstract: The government’s report falls seriously short on commitment

Cited by 53 publications

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The Immediate Impact of COVID-19 on Postsecondary Teaching and Learning

The Immediate Impact of COVID-19 on Postsecondary Teaching and Learning

Characteristics and outcomes of hospitalized adults with COVID-19 in Nepal: a multicenter, prospective cohort study

Are we responsible for the racial inequalities of covid-19?

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