id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-311545-3rll9mca Bentley, Gillian R Don't blame the BAME: Ethnic and structural inequalities in susceptibilities to COVID‐19 2020-07-16 .txt text/plain 2806 137 47 However, more recently, insidious and potentially racist allusions are beginning to emerge appearing to blame African Americans as somehow responsible for the relatively large number of cases and deaths from COVID-19 in the USA, stoking age-old tropes, and attributing morbidity and mortality to the behaviors and predispositions of BAME groups (Guardian, 2020b; Strings, 2020) . In reality, structural or social inequalities that affect individual vulnerabilities to SARS-CoV-2 include exposures through types of employment, whether people are working in essential transport networks carrying large numbers of people, or in small grocery shops that place BAME communities at greater risk of contracting COVID-19 ( Figure 1 ). ./cache/cord-311545-3rll9mca.txt ./txt/cord-311545-3rll9mca.txt