In Washington, D.C., African Americans make up 46% of population but nearly 80% of COVID-19 deaths. “So many people that have been affected by infection and death are doing essential work,” Mayor Muriel Bowser says, and it’s “largely African Americans.”
Beverly Wheeler, D.C. Hunger Solutions director, speaks of the disparities in low-income areas of the nation's capital.
“If they don’t have to wear masks, they gotta run from bullets, they gotta run from violence. They have to live in what we call food deserts, Dionne Bussey-Reede the executive director of The Far Southeast Family Strengthening Collaborative said. Without access to the internet or computers in her senior living center, Evans said it’s difficult for messaging to trickle in during the pandemic.
Beatrice Evans, a Washington D.C. Ward 8 resident who has lived in the community for 50 years, says she has no access to transportation and relies on food drop-offs at her nursing home following the coronavirus-related shutdowns.This report is part of"Pandemic – A Nation Divided," ABC News' special coverage of the heightened racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Tune into"Nightline" for the last of a three-day series this week, 12 a.m.
The historically black university received private funding from Bank of America to provide a free test to any resident who wants one.
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