CORRESPONDENCE | THE LANCET | VOLUME 395, ISSUE 10234, P1421-1422, MAY 02, 2020

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

• Manish Pareek
• Mansoor N Bangash
• Nilesh Pareek
• Daniel Pan
• Shirley Sze
• Jatinder S Minhas
• Wasim Hanif
• Kamlesh Khunti

“As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues advancing globally, reporting of clinical outcomes and risk factors for intensive care unit admission and mortality are emerging. Early Chinese and Italian reports associated increasing age, male sex, smoking, and cardiometabolic comorbidity with adverse outcomes.¹ Striking differences between Chinese and Italian mortality indicate ethnicity might affect disease outcome, but there is little to no data to support or refute this.”

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