Ethnicity and COVID-19: an urgent public health research priority

Affiliations

¹ Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK; Department of Infection and HIV Medicine, University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK. Electronic address: mp426@le.ac.uk.
² Department of Intensive Care, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK; Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
³ School of Cardiovascular Medicine and Sciences, King's BHF Centre of Excellence, London, UK.
⁴ Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK; Department of Infection and HIV Medicine, University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK.
⁵ Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK.
⁶ Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK.
⁷ Leicester Diabetes Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK.

Manish Pareek et al. Lancet. 2020.

. 2020 May 2;395(10234):1421-1422.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30922-3. Epub 2020 Apr 21.

¹ Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK; Department of Infection and HIV Medicine, University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK. Electronic address: mp426@le.ac.uk.
² Department of Intensive Care, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK; Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
³ School of Cardiovascular Medicine and Sciences, King's BHF Centre of Excellence, London, UK.
⁴ Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK; Department of Infection and HIV Medicine, University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK.
⁵ Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK.
⁶ Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK.
⁷ Leicester Diabetes Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK.

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