Russell Jeung knew trouble was ahead for the Asian American community when President Donald Trump labeled SARS-CoV-2 “The China Virus” in early 2020.
“It was deadly. It racialized the virus. It made a biological virus Chinese and stigmatized the people,” said Jeung, a professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University and founder of Stop AAPI Hate, which tracks COVID-19-related discrimination against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. “It made Chinese people disease carriers.”
What followed was all too predictable. The rise of racism, harassment, and violent hate crimes against Asian American has became so pronounced that a new survey shows members of the group are more worried about the possibility of being a victim of pandemic-related racism than the virus itself, Jeung said at an online discussion on the topic on Friday by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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The Biden administration has signaled a stark shift in its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, particularly when it comes to areas like transparency and boosting vaccine supply.
But while the difference in administrations is clear on the surface, a significant part of the operational and behind-the-scenes work from public health officials has remained in place from President Donald Trump’s time in office.
Spectrum News looked at how the Trump and Biden administrations compare in their pandemic response, including their messaging, vaccination campaigns and coordination with states
Dakshina Kannada district health and family welfare officer Dr Ramachandra Bairy being felicitated at Kasturba Medical College in Mangaluru on Saturday.
MANGALURU: Enforcing lockdown is economically suicidal as only the rich can manage in life, said Dr M K Sudarshan, Chairman, Karnataka Covid-19 Technical Advisory Committee (TAC).
He was delivering the first Dr B S Sajjan Endowment Oration on the theme ‘Public Health Leadership in Covid-19 Pandemic’ organised by the department of community medicine of Kasturba Medical College (KMC) on Saturday.
He said that there is no need for lockdown if people follow the Covid-19 guidelines properly.
“Though lockdown has helped in the clinical management of Covid-19 effectively, it is the last measure that the government should think about in case of the second wave of the pandemic. People should wear masks even after getting the vaccine doses. Covishield and Covaxin are being administered under an emergency use authorisation. Data i