The impact of Covid-19 on ethnicity, minorities and immigrants: Are we all in the same ship?

Hatice Dılek; Muzeyyen Tonyalı; Nuray Çolapkulu; Orhan Alimoğlu

doi:10.7197/cmj.vi.776452

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The impact of Covid-19 on ethnicity, minorities and immigrants: Are we all in the same ship?

Year 2020, Volume: 42 Issue: 3, 236 - 238, 27.10.2020

Hatice Dılek Muzeyyen Tonyalı Nuray Çolapkulu , Orhan Alimoğlu

https://doi.org/10.7197/cmj.vi.776452

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Covid-19, which has caused a severe pandemic to the whole world since December 2019, continues to spread while collapsing health systems, societies and economies; while leaving controversy behind. As the coronavirus spread globally demographics of the infected are identified and current evidences point ethnical “bias” of not only to the relatively higher infection rates among minority groups, but also to the severity of the clinical course. In communities where sanitation, prevention, and determined treatment standards for the current situation are not met, the results of the pandemic can be far more devastating.

Keywords

Covid-19, ethinicity, minorities, immigrants, mortality

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Year 2020, Volume: 42 Issue: 3, 236 - 238, 27.10.2020

Hatice Dılek Muzeyyen Tonyalı Nuray Çolapkulu , Orhan Alimoğlu

https://doi.org/10.7197/cmj.vi.776452

Cited By: 1

Abstract

References

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2) Ho FK, Celis-Morales CA, Gray SR, katikireddi SV, Niedzwiedz CL, Hastie C, Lyall DM, Ferguson LD, Berry C, Mackay DF, Gill JMR, Pell JP, Sattar N, Welsh PI: Modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors for COVID-19: results from UK Biobank. medRxiv 2020; published online May 2.
3) Raifman MA, Raifman JR: Disparities in the population at risk of severe illness from COVID-19 by race/ethnicity and income. Am J Prev Med 2020;S749-3797 (20)30155-0. [published online ahead of print, 2020 Apr 27].
4) de Lusignan S, Dorward J, Correa A, Jones N, Akinyemi O, Amirthalingam G, Andrews N, Byford R, Dabrera G, Elliot A, Ellis J, Ferreira F, Lopez Bernal J, Okusi C, Ramsay M, Sherlock J, Smith G, Williams J, Howsam G, Zambon M, Joy M, Hobbs FDR: Risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 among patients in the Oxford Royal College of General Practitioners Research and Surveillance Centre primary care network: a cross-sectional study. Lancet Infect Dis 2020 May 15:S1473-3099(20)30371-6.
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17) Kluge HHP, Jakab Z, Bartovic J, D’Anna V, Severoni S: Refugee and migrant health in the COVID-19 response. Lancet 2020;395(10232):1237-39.
18) Undocumented migrants dying of coronavirus because they’re too afraid to seek help, MPs and charities warn. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-undocumented-migrants-deaths-cases-nhs-matt-hancock-a9470581.html (Accessed on 18 May 2020)

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Primary Language	English
Subjects	Health Care Administration
Journal Section	Reviews
Authors	Hatice Dılek 0000-0002-4878-9552 Muzeyyen Tonyalı 0000-0002-7087-3558 Nuray Çolapkulu 0000-0002-3033-8702 Orhan Alimoğlu 0000-0003-2130-2529
Publication Date	October 27, 2020
Acceptance Date	September 18, 2020
Published in Issue	Year 2020Volume: 42 Issue: 3

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AMA	Dılek H, Tonyalı M, Çolapkulu N, Alimoğlu O. The impact of Covid-19 on ethnicity, minorities and immigrants: Are we all in the same ship?. CMJ. October 2020;42(3):236-238. doi:10.7197/cmj.vi.776452

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