Covid-19: Black people over 80 in England are half as likely as white people to have been vaccinated

Targeted activity might be needed to tackle the disparities in accessing covid-19 vaccines, authors of a large study have said after finding that ethnic minorities, people living areas high deprivation, and those with severe mental health illness or learning disabilities seem less likely been vaccinated.1 Between 8 December 2020 13 January this year, 41% aged 80 over England who do not live care homes were vaccinated against covid-19. But researchers from University Oxford London School Hygiene Tropical Medicine found sizeable divergence vaccination by ethnicity within group 476 375 (of 1 160 062 80s). While 42.5% white …