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# Ex adviser warns LGBTQ+ people “forgotten” from Covid-19 data
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/ex-adviser-warns-lgbtq-people-forgotten-from-covid-19-data/
- Published: 2021-06-09T11:30:44.000Z
- Updated: 2021-06-09T11:30:44.000Z
- Description: Catherine Meads warned that analysis of the impact of Covid-19 on queer people has “not been done”.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: Health, News, Politics, Queer Corner, COVID-19, Healthcare, Kemi Badenoch, LGBT Foundation, LGBTQ, UK

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Former LGBTQ+ government [adviser](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/uk-government-disbands-lgbtq-advisory-panel/) **Catherine Meads** has warned that analysis of the impact of Covid-19 on queer people has *“not been done”* by authorities, telling *[The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/lgbt-covid-data-government-b1848995.html?ref=scenemag.co.uk)* that the LGBTQ+ community has *“been forgotten about”*. Meads, who is a professor of health at **Anglia Ruskin University**, said it is *“difficult”* to assess the impact of the pandemic on LGBTQ+ people due to the lack of data.

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Kemi Badenoch

Equalities minister **Kemi Badenoch** said the government has not found *“that LGBTQ+ groups specifically have been disproportionately affected”,* Meads said Badenoch was *“conflating no problem with no data”*, adding: *“The analysis has not been done and it should have been done.”* She also pointed out that this is too common a problem for the LGBTQ+ community, where *“people have assumed all sorts of things to do with the health of the LGBTQ+ population without checking the data out.”*

**Rob Cookson**, deputy chief executive of the **LGBT Foundation**, said queer people experience a *“broad range of health inequalities across their lifetimes and face increased risk factors for the virus having serious health implications”.* He believes the government has not done enough *“to understand and act on the needs of LGBT communities during the pandemic.”*

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