From the LA Times Studios, this is Asian Enough.

Every week on this podcast, we talk to one Asian American celebrity about the joys, the complications,

and everything else that comes along with being Asian American.

Although this episode will be a little different.

I'm Jen Yamato.

And I'm Frank Schoen.

We're in the middle of a coronavirus epidemic,

and this is our special quarantine episode.

Got a bit of a location change.

We're not coming to you from El Segundo as we were earlier this week when we talk to John Cho and Lulu Wong.

I'm actually recording this in my closet that I use as an office space, or my Clauphus, as I like to call it. Jen are you in your

closet too? I am indeed in my closet looking at all of my shoes and that's because

due to COVID-19 you and I are heating health warnings and maintaining

social distance. That means that we're podcasting while staying at home as

well as washing our hands frequently and taking precautions that hopefully everyone out there is also taking two.

So please join us in conversation here together in spirit but safely apart because this is an important episode.

Yeah, when we set out to make this podcast a global pandemic wasn't in the cars,

but COVID-19 affects Asian Americans in a very specific way and we thought it was

important to talk about it. So we asked our colleague Samia Karlamangla who has

been covering COVID-19 for the LA Times to join us today and share her expertise.

We will discuss how the virus is affecting the Asian American community

and impacting Asian-owned small businesses, as well as increasing reports of

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