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Address the mortality and inequality faced by disabled people due to Covid-19

Submitted on Friday 19th February 2021

Rejected on Friday 12th March 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Address the mortality and inequality faced by disabled people due to Covid-19

Petition Details

Urgently halt the use of DNRs due to C-19, and urgently address the issues leading to a mortality risk three times higher for many disabled people.
Review the priority list for vaccination so that more disabled people and those with learning difficulties have access to the vaccine as a priority.

Additional Information

The fact that disabled people account for nearly 60% of recorded UK deaths, highlights the extreme risk that disabled people currently face due to Covid. As the deaths in the report are only those where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate, this does not account for potential increase in mortality amongst disabled people that has been caused by broader effects of this crisis. The report also cannot identify one clear causation for this, which is doubly concerning.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Prioritise vaccinations for people with a learning disability: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/562694

Increase vaccination priority for moderate risk (clinically vulnerable) people: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/575707

There is no legislation regarding do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) decision. These are decisions made by individuals and clinicians. You might like to sign the following petition:

Hold a public inquiry into the use of DNACPR orders during the Covid-19 outbreak: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/562740

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