Health Disparities - "Kung Flu"
The discrimination against Asian Americans during the covid-19 pandemic disproportionately affected asian communities. Stereotypes spreading throughout the country characterized covid-19 as "Kung Flu" or "the Chinese Virus" stigmatizing asian communities as disease ridden and detrimental to society. This lead to a decrease in quality medical care for asians along with creating barriers to receiving medical care. Not only were asians struggling against the pandemic and its social implications, an increase in anti-asian violence spread fear throughout asian communities. To support these claims, I would need to find statistics on asian-violence, covid-19 infection rates and death rates (based on ethnicity), along with any supporting research on the barriers to seeking medical help.
I think. this would be a really interesting topic to research since everyone was impacted by the pandemic, yet Asian Americans also faced hate and discrimination in health care due to their race and the origin of the virus.
ReplyDeleteGood topic to write about, as it is very relevant and prevalent in the current society. However, I am just curious if Asian dominated neighborhoods also have impact on the quality of medical care that they receive. It would be good to have a comparison of the decrease of medical care before and after the pandemic.
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