VACCINATION OF INTERNATIONALLY EDUCATED NURSES IN THE NORDIC REGION MUST REMAIN A PRIORITY

A study conducted in the United Kingdom last April 2020 revealed that third of critically ill patients are from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups. According to the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (2020), 13.8% of the 2249 critically ill are of Asian background (1). BAME workers have faced a triple whammy of threats during the pandemic crisis (2). The lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) and insufficient testing capacity were few of the reasons to the high mortality rates of covid19 patients under the BAME groups...