Fighting COVID-19: What’s in a Name?

Autor: Aline Sandouk, Thomas Pak, Phuong B. Le
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: International Journal of Medical Students.
ISSN: 2076-6327
DOI: 10.5195/ijms.2020.645
Popis: While the COVID-19 virus has infected over 3 million people in the United States of America, Asian Americans face unique unfair treatment due to COVID-19. In America, many anti-Asian incidents have been reported, and the FBI warns of increased hate crimes to Asian Americans due to COVID-19. Americans and high-level politicians use inappropriate names, such as “Chinese Virus,” for the COVID-19 virus, which fuels racism and xenophobia. In this Experience piece, we discuss the harm of referring to the COVID-19 virus based on the geographic location where it was first identified.
Databáze: OpenAIRE