During a Friday appearance on CBS This Morning, tylerperry spoke with GayleKing about the impact of the novel coronavirus on black communities in the U.S.: 'We are going to be hit much harder'
"What I'm hoping is that by paying for the groceries for these people who are just like my mother, my aunt, come from where I come from, so I'm hoping that other people will join in," Perry told Gayle King via video chat on Friday's 'CBS This Morning.', during which he spoke with Gayle King about the impact of the novel coronavirus on black communities in the U.S.
Perry went on to say that he believes African Americans have been hit harder by COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. According to a, 33 percent of hospitalized coronavirus patients were black, "suggesting that black populations might be disproportionately affected by COVID-19" nationwide.
The New Orleans native continued, "I wanted to do something immediate that got out to people immediately. So I reached out to Kroger and I reached out to Winn-Dixie because I remember my mother going to shop at Winn-Dixie every Saturday when I was a kid. … I wanted to go directly to neighborhoods where the incomes are much lower, and I wanted to really focus and drive the point home here.
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