The Gateway Shopping Center in Memphis, Tenn. has been chosen as a possible site for a backup coronavirus care center to ease the burden on area hospitals.A building in a low-income, predominantly black neighborhood is being considered as a potential makeshift coronavirus hospital, according to the Associated Press.
Data from other states already shows that African-Americans contract and die from COVID-19 at a higher rate. Residents in Memphis, Tennessee, are concerned after a shopping center in a low-income predominantly black neighborhood was chosen as a potential coronavirus makeshift medical facility,States across the country are turning public spaces like convention centers into makeshift hospitals to deal with the influx of coronavirus cases and help ease the burden on local hospitals.
"I'm sure there are other places that would work, and they should have used those rather than go into a residential neighborhood," US Rep. Steve Cohen, a Memphis Democrat, told the AP.
Same in Seattle when black & brown communities had these centers foisted onto them, just because it was easier, out of sight...
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