{"id":47408,"date":"2020-05-04T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=47408"},"modified":"2020-05-04T19:12:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T18:12:46","slug":"lealani-mae-acosta-unmasking-asian-discrimination-against-healthcare-workers-during-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2020\/05\/04\/lealani-mae-acosta-unmasking-asian-discrimination-against-healthcare-workers-during-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Lealani Mae Acosta: Unmasking discrimination against Asian healthcare workers during covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"standfirst\">Let us not put up barriers to treating each other with respect, calls Lealani Mae Acosta<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-47410 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2020\/05\/lealani.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"180\" \/>Imagine being an emergency room (ER) physician in the heart of New York City: not only are you on the frontlines caring for patients with covid-19, but you are also the head of the ER, entrusted with the safety of your staff, including obtaining appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On a rare day off, you scout for extra PPE. Miraculously, you find a local hardware store that has some.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wheeling your buggy to the parking lot, you are accosted by three young men. They hurl abuse. Your defenses do little to buffer their jeers because you\u2019re not being targeted as a potential hoarder or price gouger. The derogatory comments consist of racial slurs and commands to \u201cgo back to China.\u201d You are targeted because you are of Asian descent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is what I imagine Dr Edward Chew faced, whose story <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/23\/us\/chinese-coronavirus-racist-attacks.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">was reported in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New York Times<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unfortunately, during this pandemic attacks against Asian people in countries where they constitute a minority are not isolated events. This group were subjected to discrimination for similar reasons in the 2002-03 SARS outbreak and are being targeted once again. In the US, for example, during the 2002-03 SARS outbreak, the Public Response Service through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3322940\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">callers from the general public who expressed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> concerns about \u201cworking with Asians,\u201d \u201cliving near Asians,\u201d and, the most frequent concern, \u201cfear of buying Asian merchandise.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discrimination was seen against <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2020\/02\/04\/2003-sars-outbreak-fueled-anti-asian-racism-this-pandemic-doesnt-have\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">individual Asian people, businesses, and neighborhoods<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, not only against those of Chinese descent, but anyone who appeared Asian. At the height of SARS, the restaurants and businesses in Chinatowns and other Asian communities, usually bustling, sat empty as patrons eschewed them. Slander and hate messages were hurled at Asian individuals and organizations. Some commuters on public transportation would deliberately avoid <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/326\/7395\/939.1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sitting near anybody Asian<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some people might think, &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course we\u2019re more tolerant, more civil now.&#8221; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet, as covid-19 cases rose in countries such as the UK, Canada, the US, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-51294305\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">France<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Asian people were being <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">targeted, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/03\/27\/822383360\/asian-americans-are-blamed-by-some-for-covid-19-outbreak?t=1588353685284\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">blamed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-london-51736755\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">even beaten<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> because they were easily <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2020\/03\/18\/rucira-ooi-even-hospital-settings-are-not-immune-to-xenophobia-amid-a-pandemic\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">identified as Asian<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, some potentially because of specifically wearing face masks<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An American website was launched to report a hate crime secondary to being Asian because of covid-19, STOP AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) HATE. It received more than <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianpacificpolicyandplanningcouncil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Press_Release_4_3_20.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1100 incident reports in its first two weeks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In their <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianpacificpolicyandplanningcouncil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/A3PCON_Public_Weekly_Report_3.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">analysis of the reports<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the organization notes, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Asian Americans of different ethnicities are racially profiled; 61% of the reports are from non-Chinese.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-01009-0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">recent editorial in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nature<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> highlights the threat to education, research, and science if stigmatization against Asian people continues to escalate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As healthcare workers, we have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2764380\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">much to worry about during the current pandemic<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. We worry about catching covid-19 and being symptomatic and hospitalized, or being asymptomatic, and unwittingly transmitting the virus to others, including our loved ones. The last thing we need is another fear like xenophobia, wasting precious mental energy. For those of Asian heritage working in medicine in a country where we are a minority, it is ironic that we fear being discriminated against in a discipline that emphasizes treating everybody\u2014regardless of the demographic, socioeconomic, or ethnic category in which the patient happens to fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To those healthcare workers of Asian descent: you are seen, particularly those directly treating and caring for people with covid-19 (not, as some politicians and commentators have dubbed it, the \u201cChinese virus\u201d or \u201cWuhan virus\u201d). The Japanese phlebotomist with a foreign medical degree but no credentialing to practice, who feels helpless about not being able to do more\u2014both in his adopted and home country. The Filipino nurse running to a code, who worries about insufficient PPE and the consequences of falling ill and being unable to send the monthly portion of her paycheck to family in the Philippines. The Korean ICU fellow, the first doctor in her family, overwhelmed by the lack of ventilators and the knowledge that her parents\u2019 restaurant is struggling because of the slump in business. The Chinese physician obtaining PPE for his ER staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The common emotion behind what many Asian people may be experiencing right now and what drives those who discriminate is fear. Particularly behind a mask, it would be easy to depersonalize and, in essence, dehumanize, those deemed as \u201cother.\u201d Even as we don protective gear, let us not put up barriers to treating each other with respect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Lealani Mae Acosta<\/strong> is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vanderbilt University Medical Center, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nashville, Tennessee.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>\u00a0Competing interests:<\/strong> None declared. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr Acosta discloses that she is an Asian American.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us not put up barriers to treating each other with respect, calls Lealani Mae Acosta [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2020\/05\/04\/lealani-mae-acosta-unmasking-asian-discrimination-against-healthcare-workers-during-covid-19\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1357],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-health-care"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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