This virus DOES discriminate
There are trends which say something very uncomfortable about the western world. During this pandemic, people of colour are paying a heavier price in lives lost than those who are white. In the city that's the epicentre of the epidemic in the US, black New Yorkers are dying at twice the rate of the city's white residents. Latinos, too, are more vulnerable than average. In Britain, ethnic minorities make up one-in-seven of the population - but are believed to account for one-in-three of those in intensive care hospital wards with COVID symptoms. That's a shaming statistic. But nothing like as shocking as this: the fourteen doctors to die in Britain from the virus to date were all, all, non-white.
