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UK expert: Racism not to blame for minorities' COVID risk

by Sylvia Hui
| October 22, 2020 11:03 AM

LONDON (AP) — A scientist newly appointed as an advisor to the British government has expressed skepticism about focusing on the role of structural racism in the disproportionate effect that the coronavirus has on ethnic minority groups.

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