Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies
Unmasking COVID-19: Pacific Islanders, Health Equity, and Survival in New Zealand and the United States
“Unmasking COVID-19” examines the uneven effects of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic on Pacific Islander communities in New Zealand and the United States. While it may seem that both countries have taken vastly different approaches to managing the pandemic leading to contrasting impacts on their populations, Pacific Islanders in both nations have been diagnosed with and suffered the impact of COVID-19 in numbers disproportionate to their representation within the overall population.