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Yes as I said the statistic of 4x that he used is inflated.The ONS has actually found that even after taking into account age, measures of self-reported health and disability and other socio-demographic characteristics, black people were still almost twice as likely as white people to die a Covid-19-related death.
Bangladeshi and Pakistani males were 1.8 times more likely to die from Covid-19 than white males, after other pre-existing factors had been accounted for, and females from those ethnic groups were 1.6 times more likely to die from the virus than their white counterparts.
The risk of Covid-19 death for people from Chinese and mixed ethnic groups was found to be similar to that for white people.
So I believe that they are legitimate concerns
Also the ONS is data analysis, which I agree with.
But the reason for BAME prevalence seems to be (based on wider analysis and scientific evidence) related to the general socio-economic status (i.e. increased poverty in the BAME population) and the increased severity seen in SARS and being seen now in C-19 from a vitamin D deficiency, which is largely prevelant in BAME people in the UK.
PL BAME footballers therefore should not be at a 2x increased risk as they should not be subject to vitamin D deficiency and most certainly are not living in poverty.
I get why TD doesn't want to train and have no issue with his decision, but if his other comments encourage more BAME footballers to not train this could cause some real issues which is based on poor data and science.
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