Ethnicity and COVID-19: an urgent public health research priority

MP received grants and personal fees from Gilead Sciences outside of this Correspondence. JSM received grants from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) during this work. WH is Trustee of the South Asian Health Foundation. KK is Director of the Black and Minority Ethnic Centre, NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARC) East Midlands. All other authors have nothing to declare. MP and JSM are supported by the NIHR. The views expressed in this Correspondence are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the National Health Service, the NIHR, or the UK Department of Health. KK and MP acknowledge the NIHR ARC—East Midlands, the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, and the Centre for Black Minority Ethnic Health. DP and SS are supported by NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowships.