Molecular mechanisms for thrombosis risk in Black people: a role in excess mortality from COVID‐19

We read with interest your recent article by Fogarty et al.,1 in particular their conclusion that differences in thrombotic risk may contribute to ethnic disparities in mortality from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This is especially important in the UK, where age-sex adjusted hospital death rates for COVID-19 are 2·17-times higher for people with ethnicity recorded as Black compared to those recorded as White, and 1·95 higher for those...