*Jeannie Mai has responded to trolls who claim she has the coronavirus because of her ethnicity.
Mai’s mother is Vietnamese and her father is Chinese but she was born and raised in California. This little fact is not stopping folks from advising her boyfriend Jeezy to watch his back (and his health), Page Six reports.
“When Jeezy and I were in Fashion Week just recently and there were pictures posted, I saw in the comments on other blogs a couple of times like, ‘Don’t be catching that Corona, Jeezy’ or ‘She got that Corona that latched him in,’” she said on Wednesday’s episode of “The Real” talk show. “And that’s so hurtful because there are people that are actually dying from this.”
“I also heard that there are schools that are considering to quarantine Asian kids because they just want to keep it safe,” the 41-year-old told the panel. “I just want to say, we know that misinformation coupled with fear leads to xenophobia, right? Xenophobia is a deep-rooted fear against foreigners. So, we just got to do better and know that when it comes to yourself, educate yourself so that you don’t give life to fear.”
Mai began dating Jeezy, 42, in September 2019 following her split from ex-hubby Freddy Harteis.
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“If you are Asian and you’re feeling something, I would recommend — I read that they said that you should actually talk about it and put out the stories because that’s how you — just like you know, on black Twitter we share our stories of racism, you guys need to do that too,” said “The Real” co-host Loni Love in support of Mai.
Scroll up and watch more from he ladies about the issue via the YouTube clip above.
Meanwhile, China has reported 5,090 new coronavirus cases and 121 new deaths in the past 24 hours.
Via New York Times:
A senior health official in Wuhan, China, the center of the outbreak, has called on residents who have recovered from the coronavirus to donate blood plasma, believing their naturally produced antibodies could be used to treat patients who are still sick.
The government is currently prescribing a combination of anti-viral drugs, but China National Biotec Group, a state-owned company under the Ministry of Health, called the use of plasma “the most effective method, which can significantly reduce the mortality of critically ill patients.”
The CDC confirmed on Wednesday that a 14th person has been infected with the virus in the United States.
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