Pacific Islanders in diaspora are disproportionately contracting COVID‐19, experience hospitalization and develop complications In Utah, Pacific Islanders have the highest contraction rate in the state Pacific Islanders constitute only 2% of the state's population, but represent 4% of the those infected with COVID‐19, begging the question how we might explain the high rates of contraction? As community engaged scholars and practitioners, we offer discussion, insight, and commentary on the COVID‐19 pandemic affecting Pacific Islanders in Utah Grounding this discussion is a history of the Pacific Islander community as an essential workforce that dates back to the 1850s, before statehood We argue that historical discrimination against these early Pacific Islanders shaped the way this group is racialized as essential laborers today The authors offer this assertion along with practices and protocols that honour cultural norms of socialization, which we see is the pathway to provide safe measures that are relevant to the Utah Pasifika community

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揭露 COVID ‐19 的基本现实：盐湖谷的太平洋岛民社区

海外太平洋岛民感染 COVID-19 的比例过高，住院治疗并出现并发症 在犹他州，太平洋岛民的收缩率最高 太平洋岛民仅占该州人口的 2%，但占 COVID-19 感染者的 4% ‐19，问我们如何解释高收缩率的问题？作为社区参与的学者和从业者，我们提供有关影响犹他州太平洋岛民的 COVID-19 大流行的讨论、见解和评论 此次讨论是太平洋岛民社区作为必不可少的劳动力的历史，可追溯到 1850 年代，