An Old Hate Goes Viral

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🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Since the coronavirus started spreading in the United States, members of the Asian American/Pacific Islander community have been verbally assaulted, coughed at and spit on, and even physically attacked. This is the latest chapter in an ongoing saga of hate and racism spreading alongside a public health crisis.

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0:00.0	From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal.
0:09.2	I'm Al-Edsin.
0:10.4	Today, as a part of our continuing coverage on the pandemic, we're bringing you this
0:15.1	special podcast extra.
0:18.6	The Rona, that's what the cool kids have taken to calling this new virus that has turned
0:23.8	all of our lives upside down.
0:26.4	The actual name is SARS-CoV-2.
0:29.0	Short for it, severe acute respiratory syndrome, coronavirus 2.
0:33.7	The virus causes the disease known as COVID-19.
0:37.4	Short for coronavirus disease 2019.
0:40.8	The reason for this word and number salad has to do with a change in the disease naming
0:46.1	guidelines, the World Health Organization made in 2015.
0:50.6	The agency wanted scientists to stop naming diseases after people or places because it created
0:57.4	a stigma and perpetuated discrimination.
1:00.6	Like when AIDS first emerged in the US, it was known as gay-related immune deficiency,
1:06.9	or that we call the global pandemic of 1918, the Spanish flu.
1:12.2	Even though most scientists believe Spain is not the origin of the virus.
1:16.9	At a week after the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak was identified as a pandemic, back in early
1:22.5	March, President Trump called it, a term the President dismissed as not being racist mere
1:30.6	moments later because, since then, there's been a surge of discriminatory attacks against
1:40.1	people of Asian and Pacific Islander background in this country.
1:44.1	This kind of targeted hate has a deeper and darker past that's resurfacing now in cities
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