{"id":3023,"date":"2022-04-08T12:10:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T11:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/?page_id=3023"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:17:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:17:41","slug":"sense-calls-for-government-to-act-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/press-releases\/covid\/sense-calls-for-government-to-act-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Sense calls for Government to act as data shows nearly six out of every 10 Covid deaths are disabled people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>11 February 2021<\/strong> \u2013 Sense responds to data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) which shows that nearly six out of every 10 people who died with coronavirus in England last year were disabled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Richard Kramer, chief executive of national disability charity Sense, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDisabled people are three times more likely to die from Covid-19 than non-disabled people. This is even greater for particular groups, such as those with a learning disability. And yet, throughout this pandemic, disabled people and their needs haven\u2019t been prioritised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom the lack of infrastructure to allow those forced to shield to access food and medicine during the first lockdown, to the cuts in social care support affecting those living independently and families caring for them at home, disabled people have largely been forgotten, left without sufficient support, information and communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is not enough that there will be investigation into the disproportionate impact of the virus upon disabled people\u2019s lives, and how society has managed this. The Government must act now, planning its way out of lockdown with disabled people and their family\u2019s needs prioritised, to show that it\u2019s learnt from the mistakes of the past year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n  <div class=\"wp-block  box    is-style-textured-grey-tint-10\">    <div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Sense&#8217;s media team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:mediaenquiries@sense.org.uk\">mediaenquiries@sense.org.uk<\/a><br><strong>Phone number: <\/strong>0203 833 0611<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 February 2021 \u2013 \u201cDisabled people are three times more likely to die from Covid-19 than non-disabled people.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[],"display_author":[],"class_list":["post-3023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3023"},{"taxonomy":"display_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/display_author?post=3023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}