Covid-19: Known risk factors fail to explain the increased risk of death among people from ethnic minorities

People from Asian and black ethnic backgrounds are at increased risk of dying from covid-19 and, contrary to speculation, this can only be partly explained by comorbidity, deprivation, or other risk factors, according to data from the largest study to date.1 The pseudonymised health data of over 17.4 million adults in the UK, which included 5683 hospital deaths attributed to covid-19, was analysed using the OpenSAFELY analytics platform. The...