Angela Saini
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Risks on the frontline: ethnic minorities make up almost half of NHS medical staff
On 8th February, in the early days of the pandemic, a farright American website posted the headline: “STILL No Non-Chinese Deaths from coronavirus.” It claimed that Chinese people were so biologically exceptional that a virus originating in Wuhan couldn’t possibly infect white people in Europe, even if it reached that far. This nugget of nonsense barely survived a month before being comprehensively debunked by the spread of Covid-19 through Italy and then western Europe.