April 16, 2021
Nearly 3,800 hate incidents against Asian American and Pacific Islander communities have been documented since the pandemic was declared in March 2020. (Photo/iStock)
Jonathan Wang has spent all year helping students emotionally grapple with the racist incidents targeting Asians, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders during the pandemic. The recent killing of eight people, including six Asian women, outside Atlanta only heightened the stress many Asian Americans feel, Wang said, including those at USC.
The deaths are just the latest and most violent examples of what many have experienced all year the feeling that COVID-19 has exacerbated their feelings of being unwelcomed, different and outsiders, added Wang, director of Asian Pacific American Student Services, or APASS, at USC.
Participants from throughout the Western Hemisphere exchange perspectives on and discuss solutions to immigration issues.
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April 9, 2021
The upcoming event “Encuentro: Defending Migrants Rights Across the Americas” looks at new approaches to immigration. (Image Source: iStock/RobinOlimb.)
When Deisy Del Real’s studies on immigration took her to Argentina, she felt a sense of acceptance there that pleased her. The country had recently passed laws making immigration a human right, expanding constitutional protections to all people in the country regardless of legal status and promoting mechanisms that ensured immigrants had access to legal services to help them start down the path to residency and citizenship.
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Hispanic immigrants of working age 20 to 54 years old are over 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than U.S.-born men and women who are not Hispanic, according to a USC study of California death certificate data from 2020.
The study, published Monday in the
Annals of Epidemiology, highlights California s urgent need to bring vaccinations, treatments and other interventions to a demographic that comprises the backbone of the state s agricultural and service industries. Unions and advocacy groups are racing to convince immigrants, both documented and undocumented, to get vaccines, Politico reports. We ve known since early on that people of color are more likely to die of COVID. The CDC says that Hispanics, overall, are 2.3 times more likely to die than non-Hispanics, said Erika Garcia, an assistant professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the study s first author. Yet when we looked at this specific, working-age group, we were
By City News Service
Apr 7, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Rapid COVID-19 tests used twice a week could detect the most contagious children and help to make school re-openings safer, according to a study released today by USC.
“Serial testing is critical because one-time antigen tests might not identify asymptomatic children at or shortly after the onset of infection, said Neeraj Sood, who directs the COVID Initiative at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. “But serial testing will likely identify these children as they subsequently develop high viral loads and become infectious a few days later.