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Sean Key says: This is a burning issue that does need resolving. However, in the middle of a 1-100 year pandemic in which citizens could benefit from using pulse oximeters at home to spot early signs of deterioration, getting admitted to hospital earlier and having a much shorter stay in hospital, we need to be careful about what messages we send to the wider population. Headlines have been disseminated from this article that ‘Pulse Oximeters are racist’ which play into the current political conversation on both sides of the pond and can be seen as ‘common sense’. If the outcom...