Ethnicity and covid-19: analysis must be inclusive and transparent

Abstract

Khunti and colleagues discuss the possible association between ethnicity and severity of covid-19. 1 Our experience in London would suggest such a link, and further analysis of clinical outcomes data should be a priority.Ethnicity is multidimensional. 2 Analysis of the UK covid-19 data needs to take into consideration that those of black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) background have vastly heterogenous cultures, behaviours, family and community dynamics, religions, and languages. Defining (even through self-identification) patients as "black" or "Indian" hides the diversity within these ethnic groups, and further subgroup analysis is required to understand the complex social and economic factors at play.

Epidemiología sociocultural de la crisis del COVID-19

“…El virus SARS-CoV-2 se transmite por tres vías, fundamentalmente: i) inhalación de aerosoles de tamaño menor o igual a 5 micras de diámetro infectados por el virus, mantenidos en el aire en suspensión, ii) contacto de mucosas expuestas con gotas respiratorias mayores de 5 micras de diámetro infectadas con el virus, iii) contacto de mucosas con fómites infectados con el virus (manos que han tocado superficies infectadas, por ejemplo) (Asadi et al, 2019(Asadi et al, , 2020Buonanno et al, 2020;Echternach et al, 2020;D. A. Edwards et al, 2021;Morawska et al, 2009;Papineni et al, 2020). No se describe transmisión fecal-oral del virus (Cevik et al, 2020)…”