Former LGBTQ+ government adviser Catherine Meads has warned that analysis of the impact of Covid-19 on queer people has “not been done” by authorities, telling The Independent 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.Kemi BadenochEqualities 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.