AUTHOR=Abdelhafiz Ahmed Samir , Alorabi Mohamed TITLE=Social Stigma: The Hidden Threat of COVID-19 JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health VOLUME=8 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00429 DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2020.00429 ISSN=2296-2565 ABSTRACT=

COVID-19 infection has been recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Efforts to prevent the spread of the disease are threatened by the appearance of disease-associated social stigma in society. In Egypt, a small wave of stigma directed at different groups started to appear. Here we report the features of COVID-19-associated stigma in Egypt and suggest recommendations to overcome this stigma before it grows and have physical and psychological impacts on society.