This is how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting romance, anxiety, health, and racism
Want to know how your lockdown is going compared to everyone else’s? A sobering survey of 4,149 people by 11 researchers at Chapman University sheds light on how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting us all, and the impact is enormous:
“I am troubled by these findings,” said coauthor Jason Douglas, assistant professor of public health, of the racist incidents. “We need clear and consistent messaging to indicate that viral pandemics do not stem from our ethnocultural minority communities. Rather, residents living in disadvantaged, ethnocultural minority communities are at greater risk for COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality due to long-standing systemic inequities that unfairly limit access to health-protective resources.”
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