Race-based data must be collected to help fight COVID-19, advocates say
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 - 11:40
in Health & Medicine
It's been suggested ethnicity is one of the risk factors for COVID-19. The largest outbreaks in Alberta affected primarily immigrant workers at meat processing facilities, and nearly half of the cases in Calgary can be found east of Deerfoot Trail, in neighbourhoods with larger immigrant populations and higher rates of poverty.