id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-293967-t0216n2m Moorthy, Arumugam COVID 19 and Ethnicity: Spot light on the global rheumatology issues in developing and developed countries 2020-05-30 .txt text/plain 2615 131 46 A key issue in the response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic is the internationally recognised observation that COVID‐19 disproportionally affects the Black and Minority Ethnic Population (BAME) (1). The variation in COVID-19 testing among BAME, HCW and front line workers maybe a possible reason for increased reported deaths as patients not admitted to hospital were not included initially in mortality figures (6) . The COVID-19 pandemic requires an understanding of its effects and how it is spread, as well as the acceptance of such intelligence by minority ethnic people in order for the population in this group to comfortably adopt positive measures for personal safety as well as to limit the spread of infection. Some of the authors have already developed partnerships of joined up thinking between the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society and Ambassadors for Ethnicity Health, in the UK, to communicate, disseminate and raise awareness of COVID-19 among the BAME population (13) . ./cache/cord-293967-t0216n2m.txt ./txt/cord-293967-t0216n2m.txt