THE LABOUR party has questioned why so many BAME doctors have died from coronavirus.
Marsha de Cordova MP, Labour’s Shadow Women and Equalities Secretary, said: “The disproportionate number of BAME doctors who have died from coronavirus is deeply disturbing.
Days earlier the head of the British Medical Association had called on the government to urgently investigate if and why black, Asian and minority ethnic people are more vulnerable to Covid-19, after the first 10 doctors in the United Kingdom named as having died from the virus were all BAME.
The Shadow Women and Equalities Secretary, added: “It reflects the shocking underlying inequalities facing BAME communities as a whole – who are disproportionately represented in the numbers of people getting the virus.
“The Government must urgently investigate why BAME communities are more vulnerable to this virus.”
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I’m finding it incredibly difficult to understand how they are saying that there has been lack of ethnicity data collected. In today society that information has become basic standard requirement in almost every aspects of our modern day lives and now all of a sudden we are not collecting the data.
Let alone a similar picture emerging in America.
I think some serious questions needs to be asked?
Always got to be about race, is the virus racist. There ARE white people who are poor but that doesn’t matter.
We need to face the truth that black people are dying in larger numbers both here and in the US because they are not receiving the same level of medical care when they enter the hospital. Plenty white people with poor backgrounds and underlying medical conditions abound. I was struck by Boris Johnson saying that two nurses had sat at his bedside for 48 hours non-stop monitoring him until he pulled through. That level of care will always give you a better chance.
The pregnancy-related mortality rate for College educated black women in the US is 5.2x greater than their white counter-parts according to the CDC(center for disease control). A recent report with data from 13 states determined that each pregnancy-related death was associated with several contributing factors, including access to appropriate and high-quality care, missed or delayed diagnoses, and lack of knowledge among patients and providers around warning signs. The data suggests the majority of deaths – 60% or more – could have been prevented by addressing these factors at multiple levels.
we must honour the human experience by sharing the stories and not just the numbers. Behind each loss of life there is the weight of grief that we can shoulder together. Behind each tragedy there is human endeavour and kindness. If we know which parts of our community are suffering and how, we can reach out and offer help and hope. https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/rsa-comment/2020/04/covid-19-and-health-inequalities