In African American communities ravaged by covid-19, residents like Riley are wondering what they might do to soften the virus's deadly blow. ADAs of Monday, 33 of the 45 residents who died of covid-19 in Milwaukee County were black, according to the medical examiner. The virus touched the lives of students at a neighborhood high school, where a basketball coach died after contracting it. When she looks out of her window onto the unusually quiet streets of the Metcalfe Park neighborhood — a predominantly black community on the city’s north side — she occasionally sees groups walking less than six feet apart. ADThese situations were common across the country, but they had a particular impact in Metcalfe Park where there were so few options.

Source: Washington Post April 07, 2020 00:13 UTC