Third quarterly report on progress to address COVID-19 health inequalities

Updated the section ‘Data and evidence’ > ‘Results’ > ‘Differences in COVID-19 mortality between the first wave and the second wave’. This is because of a mistake in a paper we reference in the report. We reported that the fully-adjusted (+ pre-pandemic health) hazard ratio for Bangladeshi men in wave 1 was 2.5 when it was actually 1.5. The sentence previously said: “With the exception of Bangladeshi men, this is a larger excess risk than in the first wave when Bangladeshi women and Pakistani men and women had fully adjusted hazard ratios of 1.2, 1.5, and 1.3 respectively.” It now says: “This is a larger excess risk than in the first wave when Bangladeshi men and women and Pakistani men and women had fully adjusted hazard ratios of 1.5, 1.2, 1.5, and 1.3 respectively.” Footnote 41 previously linked to https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.03.21251004v1.full. It now links to https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00765-1 (an updated version of the same article). Figure 3a has also been updated to reflect the amended figure for Bangladeshi men.

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