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Fighting coronavirus fear with empathy: Lessons learned from how Africans got blamed for Ebola

  • Written by Kevin J.A. Thomas, Professor of Sociology, Demography, and African Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Decontee Sawyer, wife of Liberian government official Patrick Sawyer, a naturalized American who died from Ebola after traveling from Liberia to Nigeria, on July 29, 2014.AP Photo/Craig Lassig

With coronavirus cases exploding in China, the U.S. is once again responding to a global epidemic. Five years ago, when the Ebola virus infected more than...

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