Federal disaster teams called in to help with COVID-19 vaccination effort as Illinois surpasses 1.5 million inoculations; first South African variant identified in state – Chicago Tribune*

The first of three Disaster Survivor Assistance teams will be deployed to St. Clair County this week. The two remaining groups will be deployed to Cook County. Last week, the Illinois National Guard was called in to assist at vaccination sites at the East Side Health District in St. Clair County and Triton College in Cook County.
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debtsor
5 years ago

Why is it OK for the Tribune to use the seemingly racist “South African Variant” but its not OK to use “Chinese Virus” for the name of the underlying pathogen?

Is not calling this variant of the Chinese Virus, the South African Variant, extremely xenophobic?

Will the Tribune take responsibility for the South Africans that will inevitably attacked because of their reckless Xenophobia?

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