Well low socio economic status is one factor. Others could include working in the healthcare sector or working in a sector which continues to function during lockdown. Time will tell but I think the data points this way.They haven’t unpicked those two factors yet. Not from what I’ve seen anyway. Apart from anything else, how do you explain the fact that almost all the dead doctors in the UK are BAME? Not exactly a profession known for its low socioeconomic status.
I would need more stats to back this up but I would hesitantly suggest that reasons for higher UK BAME deaths in doctors could be a higher representation of BAME in medicine compared to the general population:
https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/ch...ors-in-england-compared-with-total-population
and also potentially an even higher proportion of BAME doctors and nurses on the front lines compared to caucasian staff:
https://www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opinion/bame-doctors-hit-worse-by-lack-of-ppe
Of course there could be biological reasons behind this too relating to underlying conditions or genetic factors affecting pathogenicity but I would perhaps gamble on social factors playing a bigger role.