Patients with non-White ethnicity and from poorer social classes are sicker at initial presentation to hospital with COVID-19 infection
(2025)
Journal Article
Crooks, C. J., West, J., Gazis, T., Morling, J., Simmonds, M., Juurlink, I., Briggs, S., Cruickshank, S., Hammond-Pears, S., Shaw, D., Card, T., & Fogarty, A. W. (2025). Patients with non-White ethnicity and from poorer social classes are sicker at initial presentation to hospital with COVID-19 infection. Public Health, 246, Article 105851. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2025.105851
Objectives
During the COVID-19 pandemic, individuals from non-White and with poorer socio-economic status (SES) had higher rates of mortality than their counterparts. The hypothesis that these individuals had more severe respiratory failure at the t...
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