The Other COVID Risks: How Race, Income, ZIP Code Influence Who Lives Or Dies [khn.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 4/27/206:03 PM

By Liz Szabo and Hannah Recht, Kaiser Health News, April 22, 2020

It started with a headache in late March. Then came the body aches.

At first, Shalondra Rollins’ doctor thought it was the flu. By April 7, three days after she was finally diagnosed with COVID-19, the 38-year-old teaching assistant told her mom she was feeling winded. Within an hour, she was in an ambulance, conscious but struggling to breathe, bound for a hospital in Jackson, Mississippi.

An hour later, she was dead.

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