{"id":93954,"date":"2021-03-29T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=93954"},"modified":"2021-03-29T07:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T12:00:10","slug":"asian-frontline-medics-in-us-face-hate-amid-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2021\/03\/29\/asian-frontline-medics-in-us-face-hate-amid-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Frontline Medics in US Face Hate Amid COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"VOA \u2014 WASHINGTON – While the past year\u2019s battle with COVID-19 has been grueling for health care workers across America, the challenge has been compounded for Asian medical professionals, who have also had to work amid a wave of pandemic-inspired anti-Asian attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe past year, it was just so many different mixed emotions between the pandemic… [and]\u00a0issues\u202fregarding\u202fracial\u202finjustice. All that put together made last year very different from other years,\u201d said Austin Chiang, a doctor whose parents emigrated from Taiwan to the U.S. 10 years before he was born in Irvine, California.<\/p>\n

On the same day that six Asian American women were slain with two other individuals in Atlanta last week, the advocacy group Stop AAPI Hate<\/a> released a report<\/a> that cited 3,795 hate incidents targeting Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders between March 19, 2020, and Feb. 28, 2021.<\/p>\n

More than 500 of the incidents were recorded since the beginning of this year.<\/p>\n

COVID-19 was first detected in humans in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. Spreading globally since then, it has felled more than 548,000 people in the U.S., where there have been more than 30 million confirmed cases, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n