Urgent actions and policies needed to address COVID-19 among UK ethnic minorities

Affiliations

¹ Electronic Health Records Research Group, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK. Electronic address: rohini.mathur@lshtm.ac.uk.
² Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
³ Diabetes Research Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
⁴ Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK.

Rohini Mathur et al. Lancet. 2020.

. 2020 Dec 12;396(10266):1866-1868.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32465-X. Epub 2020 Nov 19.

¹ Electronic Health Records Research Group, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK. Electronic address: rohini.mathur@lshtm.ac.uk.
² Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
³ Diabetes Research Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
⁴ Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK.

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