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Calling the coronavirus the 'Chinese virus' matters – research connects the label with racist bias

  • Written by Brad Bushman, Professor of Communication and Rinehart Chair of Mass Communication, The Ohio State University
imageAsian Americans have been targeted with hate crimes during the pandemic.Spencer Platt/Getty Images

No one wants their geographic region to be associated with a deadly disease. Unfortunately, this has happened in the past with diseases such as “German measles,” “Spanish flu” and “Asiatic cholera.”

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