Sharpening the global focus on ethnicity and race in the time of COVID-19

Affiliations

¹ Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and Institute of Applied Health Research, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. Electronic address: nijbhala@doctors.org.uk.
² Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; Department of Gender and Race Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA.
³ Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
⁴ Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁵ Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Neeraj Bhala et al. Lancet. 2020.

. 2020 May 30;395(10238):1673-1676.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31102-8. Epub 2020 May 10.

¹ Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and Institute of Applied Health Research, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. Electronic address: nijbhala@doctors.org.uk.
² Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; Department of Gender and Race Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA.
³ Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
⁴ Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁵ Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

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