This is hitting my community, the African American community, disproportionately.
I talked with a family where they'd lost the husband. He was 72-years-old, vivacious and never sick a day in his life. He went to work and somebody was coughing. The next day, he told his wife,"I'm not feeling too good, I'm coughing". His wife told me that he only had a 99 degree temperature, but because he was feeling bad, she took him to the hospital.
Stephen Kemp, President & CEO of Kemp Funeral Home & Cremation Services. Kemp wears a mask as he is currently dealing with an influx of COVID-19 related deaths.Why do I think the African American community is being disproportionately hit? It goes back to the same thing that I see every day. I see obesity, diabetes, hypertension and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , time in and time out.
When you're a community person like I am, you see it every day. This is not a Democratic thing, it's not a Republican thing, it's absolutely an American issue. People really have to wake up in terms of doing something about our healthcare and the access to it. Because the people I'm seeing dying of COVID-19 have conditions like COPD, asthma, Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, or hypertension. We've really got to sit down as America, together, and discuss our inequities.
And that's the strength of the community. That is what uplifts me every day—knowing the humanity of people, us helping one another out.
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