Ethnic disparities in COVID-19 outcomes: a multinational cohort study of 20 million individuals from England and Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Heterogeneous studies have demonstrated ethnic inequalities in the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and adverse COVID-19 outcomes. This study evaluates the association between ethnicity and COVID-19 outcomes in two large population-based cohorts from England and Canada and investigates potential explanatory factors for ethnic patterning of severe outcomes.

Methods

We identified adults aged 18 to 99 years in the QResearch primary care (England) and Ontario (Canada) healthcare administrative population-based datasets (start of follow-up: 24th and 25th Jan 2020 in England and Canada, respectively; end of follow-up: 31st Oct and 30th Sept 2020, respectively). We harmonised the definitions and the design of two cohorts to investigate associations between ethnicity and COVI

SUBMITTER: Zaccardi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9969387 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature