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The group works to report bias and hate incidents against Asian American Pacific Islanders.

JoAnn Fields, a Filipino community advocate, helps volunteers at the I Am My Brother’s Keeper food distribution event in Encanto. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz There’s evidence to suggest Filipinos have been hit particularly hard by the pandemic. But you wouldn’t necessarily know that looking at public health data. Most datasets group dozens of nationalities under the “Asian” category and Filipino leaders in San Diego argue that this type of aggregation hides the true impact on their communities, preventing a fair distribution of resources where they’re needed most. Maya Srikrishnan r...

San Diego County passes plan to help minority communities with coronavirus relief They also passed a plan that declares racism a public health crisis in San Diego County. and last updated 2021-01-12 20:24:17-05 SAN DIEGO (KGTV) -- The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to pass two plans that are aimed at helping the racial divide. The first is a plan that will rely on a collaborative, data-driven equitable response to coronavirus. The goal is to help communities hit the hardest by the pandemic, which tend to be minorities. In a letter written by Chair Nathan Fletcher and ...