Rethinking Culture in Health Communication : Social Interactions As Intercult...

Rethinking Culture in Health Communication : Social Interactions As Intercultural Encounters, Paperback by Hsieh, Elaine; Kramer, Eric M., ISBN 1119496160, ISBN-13 9781119496168, Brand New, Free shipping in the US"This book is published at a historical moment that is seared into everyone's memory and is likely to transform our everyday life and redefine who we are. On December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization (2020b) received a report of a cluster of casesof pneumonia in Wuhan, Hubei Province in China. By July 4, 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has reached over 11 million cases and over 530,000+ deaths worldwide, including million cases and nearly 130,000 deaths in the United States (Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, 2020). At this writing, the numbers are accelerating in growth. In 15 weeks, over 48 million Americans have filed for unemployment since mid-March when President Trump declared a national emergency concerning the COVID-19 outbreak (Menton, 2020; White House, 2020). Among those who lost jobs, poor Americans were hit the hardest: 39% of former workers living in a household earning $40,000 or less lost work; in contrast, among those making more than $100,000, 13% lost jobs (Smialek, 2020). Worse yet, it is estimated that COVID-19 may leave 27 million Americans to lose their employer-sponsored health insurance coverage after being laid off (Garfield et al., 2020) - during a time when healthcare coverage is essential to protect individual health and family wealth"--