This is outrageous and deeply offensive. The fact that Asian and black people have 2-3 times higher death rates than white people doesn't have to do with pulse oximeters. It has to do with structural racial discrimination, deep social and health inequalities. Please stop. 
https://twitter.com/Zubhaque/status/1462337541689028609
So many of this govts hostile policies already contribute to this structural discrimination, and the anti-immigration rhetoric has stoked so much hate. Please stop denying the painful lived experience of minorities, after having spent decades contributing to that pain.
And I want to say that as a medic I've used pulse oximeters every single day on hundreds of patients, and believe me, medical device bias isn't the reason people die. It's racism and denial of this that kills.
Also, would like to see Javid explain why black people had 2x higher confirmed cases compared to white people during the Jan peak.... how does pulse oximetry explain that?
Oh, and for all the people coming out with 'it's because of vaccine hesitancy'- no, not historically- during much of the pandemic cases in ethnic minorities have been 2x higher than in white people - even before vaccination.
And the govts attempts to address vaccine hesitancy in minority ethnic groups has been shameful. A key reason for hesitancy is structural racism that leads to lack of trust in govt. Until we acknowledge that, we cannot expect this trust to improve. And govt never has.
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