{"title":"People with learning disabilities can face double discrimination","authors":"Deborah Salmi","doi":"10.7748/ldp.26.3.12.s4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"People with a learning disability were six times more likely to die than those without a disability during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, people from black, Asian and other minority ethnic communities died of COVID-19 in disproportionately higher numbers than the white population.","PeriodicalId":409852,"journal":{"name":"Learning Disability Practice","volume":"196 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Learning Disability Practice","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7748/ldp.26.3.12.s4","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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People with a learning disability were six times more likely to die than those without a disability during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, people from black, Asian and other minority ethnic communities died of COVID-19 in disproportionately higher numbers than the white population.