Inclusion of Memphis, Tennessee, shopping center on list of potential locations for makeshift coronavirus hospitals has some neighborhood residents concerned.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Faced with the threat of overburdened hospitals, states across the country are converting convention centers, sports facilities and performance spaces into backup treatment sites for coronavirus patients. Tennessee is no exception.
In New York City, they’re turning to the Javits Center convention site; in Chicago, the McCormick Place Convention Center, and in Sandy, Utah, the Mountain America Expo Center. Locating a treatment center for coronavirus patients there poses two problems, residents say: It could potentially expose them to the virus amid concerns that blacks are contracting COVID-19 at higher rates; and it could force some of the stores they rely on to close.
Their fears are not unfounded. In this majority-black city along the Mississippi River and other cities across the nation that have been hard hit by COVID-19, Democratic lawmakers and community leaders have been sounding the alarm over what they see as a disturbing trend of the virus killing African Americans at a higher rate. They also have cited a lack of overall information about the race of victims as the nation’s death toll mounts.
“This is an honest and reasonable concern and skepticism,” Fisher said. “I think it's par for the course for black people to be righteously skeptical of governmental intervention that did not consult with people on the ground first.” “The task of finding space to shelter hundreds of potential patients is not one of choice but necessity,” the officials said in a statement.
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