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.