ADADAsian-owned businesses are facing a crippling pileup of pressures during the coronavirus pandemic, advocates and researchers say — pressures that won’t all ease with the country’s piecemeal reopening. “Across the nation … there is this rise of this blame game,” said Wellington Chen, who heads Chinatown Partnership, a nonprofit group supporting the district in New York City. Even Chinese American medical practices struggled in New York City, where one doctor attributed 10 to 15 percent drops in traffic to patients’ fears of public transportation. ‘Every day is a new day’In New York City, people in Chinatown are trying to help each other. ADThe naive plan, she said, was to support her painting career, the ambitions that brought her to New York City in 1986.

Source: Washington Post May 16, 2020 12:01 UTC