Colorado Asian leaders demand apology from newspaper
April 16, 2021 GMT
DENVER (AP) Leaders of Colorado’s Asian community have demanded an apology and are planning a boycott against The Villager newspaper in Greenwood Village for publishing a story on April Fools’ Day that used extensive Asian stereotypes.
The article, headlined “America’s Largest Amusement Park Heads to Greenwood Village,” jokes about an influx of Chinese students in the school district and includes a paragraph about stocking hotels with extra rice, vegetables and chopsticks for the hundreds of Chinese workers being brought in to build the fictitious park.
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It also mocks the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus was first identified, and uses fake quotes from local public officials, although with altered name spellings.
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A new assessment in the medical journal Lancet has found consistent, strong evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, is predominantly transmitted through the air.
Therefore, public health measures that fail to treat the virus as predominantly airborne leave people unprotected and allow the virus to spread, according to six experts from the UK, USA and Canada, including Jose-Luis Jimenez, a chemist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and the University of Colorado Boulder. The evidence supporting airborne transmission is overwhelming, and evidence supporting large droplet transmission is almost non-existent, Jimenez said. It is urgent that the World Health Organization and other public health agencies adapt their description of transmission to the scientific evidence so that the focus of mitigation is put on reducing air
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According to a new assessment published today in the medical journal Lancet there is consistent, strong evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, is predominantly transmitted through the air. Here are 10 lines of evidence to support the predominance of the airborne route.
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According to a new assessment published today in the medical journal Lancet there is consistent, strong evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, is predominantly transmitted through the air.
Therefore, public health measures that fail to treat the virus as predominantly airborne leave people unprotected and allow the virus to spread, according to six experts from the UK, USA and Canada, including Jose-Luis Jimenez, a chemist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and the University of C
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The researchers emphasise that while it is necessary to wash hand and clean surfaces, they should be given less emphasis than airborne measures. File photo
Updated: Apr 16, 2021, 06:07 PM IST
There is consistent, strong evidence to prove that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, is predominantly transmitted through the air, according to a new assessment published in the medical journal The Lancet.
A multi-research team from the UK, US and Canada warned that public health measures that fail to treat the virus as predominantly airborne leave people unprotected and allow the virus to spread.
Colorado Asian leaders demand apology from newspaper
April 16, 2021
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DENVER (AP) Leaders of Colorado’s Asian community have demanded an apology and are planning a boycott against The Villager newspaper in Greenwood Village for publishing a story on April Fools Day that used extensive Asian stereotypes.
The article, headlined “America’s Largest Amusement Park Heads to Greenwood Village,” jokes about an influx of Chinese students in the school district and includes a paragraph about stocking hotels with extra rice, vegetables and chopsticks for the hundreds of Chinese workers being brought in to build the fictitious park.
It also mocks the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus was first identified, and uses fake quotes from local public officials, although with altered name spellings.