TY - JOUR PY - 2022// TI - Violence and the COVID-19 pandemic: a public health of consequence, May 2022 JO - American journal of public health A1 - Kapadia, Farzana SP - 706 EP - 708 VL - 112 IS - 5 N2 - 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...

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LA - en SN - 0090-0036 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.306753 ID - ref1 ER -