Racism and discrimination in COVID-19 responses

Devakumar, Delanjathan; Shannon, Geordan; Bhopal, Sunil; Abubakar, Ibrahim

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30792-3

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“…6 7 The response to COVID-19 has been no different to previous public health emergencies in this regard. 8 Against this background, an important requirement for the credibility of any attempt to justify the use of the mobile phone app as part of a wider set of public health interventions to address the threat of COVID-19 will be recognition of the importance of engaging seriously with equity and justice issues. Notwithstanding the impossibility of addressing all structural issues in the compressed timescale of a pandemic, evidence is needed of a clear, actionable and ambitious plan for addressing these issues.…”

Section: Equity Fairness and Justicementioning

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Ethics of instantaneous contact tracing using mobile phone apps in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic

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In this paper we discuss ethical implications of the use of mobile phone apps in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic. Contact tracing is a well-established feature of public health practice during infectious disease outbreaks and epidemics. However, the high proportion of pre-symptomatic transmission in COVID-19 means that standard contact tracing methods are too slow to stop the progression of infection through the population. To address this problem, many countries around the world have deployed or are developing mobile phone apps capable of supporting instantaneous contact tracing. Informed by the on-going mapping of ‘proximity events’ these apps are intended both to inform public health policy and to provide alerts to individuals who have been in contact with a person with the infection. The proposed use of mobile phone data for ‘intelligent physical distancing’ in such contexts raises a number of important ethical questions. In our paper, we outline some ethical considerations that need to be addressed in any deployment of this kind of approach as part of a multidimensional public health response. We also, briefly, explore the implications for its use in future infectious disease outbreaks.

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Section: Equity Fairness and Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Ethics of instantaneous contact tracing using mobile phone apps in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic

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“…Prior to many of these government responses, reports emerged of individuals choosing to self-isolate, as mass panic swept through communities in waves. Anecdotal reports of verbal and physical aggression in grocery stores, hoarding of antibacterial products and other supplies, and racist abuse of individuals with Asian appearance increased as fear took over across the world (Devakumar et al, 2020;Garfin et al, 2020). As individuals scrambled to prevent the threat of COVID-19 in any way they could, online sales of 'immune boosters' and untrialled medicines increased.…”

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Death anxiety in the time of COVID-19: theoretical explanations and clinical implications

Menzies

2020

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The recent COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a surge in anxiety across the globe. Much of the public’s behavioural and emotional response to the virus can be understood through the framework of terror management theory, which proposes that fear of death drives much of human behaviour. In the context of the current pandemic, death anxiety, a recently proposed transdiagnostic construct, appears especially relevant. Fear of death has recently been shown to predict not only anxiety related to COVID-19, but also to play a causal role in various mental health conditions. Given this, it is argued that treatment programmes in mental health may need to broaden their focus to directly target the dread of death. Notably, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) has been shown to produce significant reductions in death anxiety. As such, it is possible that complementing current treatments with specific CBT techniques addressing fears of death may ensure enhanced long-term symptom reduction. Further research is essential in order to examine whether treating death anxiety will indeed improve long-term outcomes, and prevent the emergence of future disorders in vulnerable populations. Key learning aims (1) To understand terror management theory and its theoretical explanation of death anxiety in the context of COVID-19. (2) To understand the transdiagnostic role of death anxiety in mental health disorders. (3) To understand current treatment approaches for directly targeting death anxiety, and the importance of doing so to improve long-term treatment outcomes.

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“…Furthermore, right‐wing populists like Trump and Orban have been playing a populistic blame game, claiming that the spread of COVID‐19, what Trump illustratively discriminatively labelled ‘the Chinese virus’ (@realDonaldTrump 2020) at first, would be the fault of the cosmopolitan elite, foreigners and imaginatively open borders (Chung & Li 2020; Devakumar et al . 2020; White 2020). And we will probably will be seeing more examples of what could be called ‘pandemic populism’ around the globe in the time to come (Pfeifer 2020).…”

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Beyond Coronativism: The Need For Agape

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Houtum

2020

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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In this contribution we focus on togetherness, as one of the key notions in the current COVID‐19 crisis. Globally, it is seen as vital to stand and act together to combat the virus, and avoid a tragedy of the commons, in which actors are acting out of self‐interest and counterproductively to the general interest. In this essay we analyse the current geographical dissonant developments that the required human togetherness across the globe is facing. We find that the main conflicting tendencies, that we summarise as utilitarian locking up, nationalistic locking in and exclusionary locking out, are all employing a notion of togetherness which is largely based on an in‐group solidarity based on either age, gender, ethnicity, nationality or fitness. We argue that such narrow definition of togetherness falls short in dealing with the crisis in an effective as well as non‐discriminatory manner, and potentially could even lengthen or worsen the corona crisis. We end with a plea for a different conceptualisation of solidarity in the combat of the crisis, a radical non‐dividing form of togetherness: agape.

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Racism and discrimination in COVID-19 responses

Cited by 488 publications

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Ethics of instantaneous contact tracing using mobile phone apps in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic

Ethics of instantaneous contact tracing using mobile phone apps in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic

Death anxiety in the time of COVID-19: theoretical explanations and clinical implications

Beyond Coronativism: The Need For Agape

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