Why Australia needs more on ethnicity in its COVID data-gathering

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The COVID-19 pandemic has been referred to as the 'great equaliser' but data emerging from the US and the UK suggest that's not necessarily the case, and that the virus has disproportionately affected ethnic minorities.

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Published 29 August 2020 7:30am

Updated 29 August 2020 7:35am

By Lin Evlin

Source: SBS

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The COVID-19 pandemic has been referred to as the 'great equaliser' but data emerging from the US and the UK suggest that's not necessarily the case, and that the virus has disproportionately affected ethnic minorities.

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Why Australia needs more on ethnicity in its COVID data-gathering

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The COVID-19 pandemic has been referred to as the 'great equaliser' but data emerging from the US and the UK suggest that's not necessarily the case, and that the virus has disproportionately affected ethnic minorities.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has been referred to as the 'great equaliser' but data emerging from the US and the UK suggest that's not necessarily the case, and that the virus has disproportionately affected ethnic minorities.

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