The disproportionate impact of coronavirus on African American communities has left faith leaders fearful of a resurgence.
added to a long history of racial strife and discrimination in the St. Louis area that includes a massacre of black citizens by their white neighbors in 1917, decades of legally enforced segregation and the destruction of black neighborhoods under the banner of “urban renewal.”— mirrored in cities across the country — is critical to understanding why African Americans have been so vulnerable to the ravages of the novel coronavirus, said Fredrick L. Echols.
The pastors have also sought to educate public officials about just how badly their communities are hurting. When Missouri Gov. Mike Parson was weighing when to reopen the state, the St. Louis Metropolitan Clergy Coalition — a group of about 150 predominantly black churches that Hankerson leads — weighed in strongly with advice: Don’t do it yet.
Christopher McCloud is on the younger side of Jones’s congregation, at 42, but he nearly lost his life to covid-19.A physical education teacher with a host of preexisting conditions — high blood pressure, diabetes and congestive heart failure — McCloud had been isolating at home for nearly a week in March when he found he could not stand the smell of food. He was soon in the emergency room.
“We have so many underlying health conditions in our community,” said McCloud, who credited his survival to a daily exercise regimen, expert medical care and prayers from friends and family. “We have to take it more seriously than others do.”
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