#16 JournalChat// Ethnicity and COVID: Who is at risk and why. With Prof Ewen Harrison

Do you keep hearing numerous statistics about the mortality risk in COVID but want to know what the most robust data shows? How much of it is media hype? Can we really put 
it down to racism?..

And what should we be doing about it??

Your ears are in the right place.

We interview the inspiring Professor Ewen Harrison; HPB surgeon, Lead for the Centre for Medical Infomatics at Edinburgh University, and Lead author of the impressive and essential study:
“Ethnicity and outcomes from COVID-19: the ISARIC (International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium)  CCP-UK (Clinical characterisation Protocol)  prospective observational cohort study of hospitalised patients”

Introduction to the JournalSpotters (01:00)
Introduction to Professor Ewen Harrison (06:00)
Why this study was needed (09:45)
Ewen's role in the study (13:45)
Success in enrolling (16:55)
Extra information collected and studies awaited (18:30)
What the study found (20:25)
Role of Obesity (23:00)
Difficulty of data interpretation (24:48)
ICNARC report comparison with study and difference in outcomes for sex (27:00)
What are the other key factors in South Asians apart from diabetes? (32:45)
Role of deprivation / socioeconomic status (35:15)
Limitations of study (37:30)

What this means for policy makers (39:00)
How this should impact healthcare professionals (40:40)
Risk assessment tools (44:20)
Data sharing / linkage (46:38)
The role of racism in the findings (48:00)
Ewen's top take home points (50:30)

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