The timeline below shows online news coverage of racial attacks related to Covid-19 using the query "(coronavirus OR covid OR virus OR flu) AND (racist OR racism OR discrimination OR discriminate OR racial OR stereotypes OR xenophobia OR hate)". Mentions start trending upwards rapidly on January 26th, peaking on Feb 2nd and then trending down and stabilizing through Feb 25. Beginning on Feb. 26 a second wave of coverage has begun and increased steadily through present.
