COVID-19 and Health Inequality
Perhaps the less well-known story of inequality that COVID-19 has revealed, however, is the story of inequality within the NHS. There is no protection from social inequality to be found here either. The effect of the novel coronavirus on workers has reflected that in the rest of society, with doctors and nurses from BAME backgrounds disproportionately leading the death rates. While people of colour account for approximately 21% of NHS staff, 63% of those who have died from coronavirus have been from BAME backgrounds. Perhaps most starkly, 95% of the doctors who have died have been people of colour.