Citation

Kapadia F. Am. J. Public Health 2022; 112(5): 706-708.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, American Public Health Association)

DOI

10.2105/AJPH.2022.306753

PMID

35417221

Abstract

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, with more than 900 000 COVID-19‒related deaths in the United States as of February 2022, so do the parallel pandemics of fear, despair, anxiety, anger, and depression as lockdown measures, social and physical distancing, economic repercussions, government-mandated restrictions, and beliefs in conspiracy theories and scapegoating persist. At a population level, this combination of factors is fueling widespread xenophobia, White nationalism, and antigovernment sentiments that will have a profound impact on the fabric of our society and cascading impacts on population-level health and well-being. In this issue, and also highlighted in previous issues of AJPH, we describe the rise in hate crimes, violence, and harassment toward Asian Americans and public health practitioners. While seemingly distinct groups, a closer consideration reveals similarities in how these experiences with violence, hate crimes, and harassment are linked to sociostructural and political drivers of population-level health...

Language: en