Michigan Man With Coronavirus Symptoms Dies After ERs Turn Him Away [VIDEO]

 

*As many continue to suspect white supremacist health officials of pushing propaganda that Black people are primarily affected/and dying from COVID-19, many more are wondering how of much of this is due to medical biased?

A Detroit family is speaking out about how several hospitals denied care for a man they say was suffering from coronavirus symptoms. 

“He was begging for his life, but no one would help him at all. Like they just kept sending him away,” said Keith Gambrell, the stepson of 56-year-old Gary Fowler, who attempted to get tested three times. 

Gambrell said he took Fowler to three different emergency rooms and said each time, Fowler was not admitted and not tested, despite having symptoms, per CBS News. 

“I honestly believe it was because my father was black. They didn’t honestly take his symptoms serious enough to give him a test,” Gambrell told “CBS This Morning. 

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“He was begging for his life — but no one would help him”: One Michigan family is mourning the death of 56-year-old Gary Fowler after he was turned away from testing three times https://t.co/cXemN4cYQN pic.twitter.com/BcWK0k0gQU

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The day before Fowler died, his father, David, died from COVID-19. Fowler’s wife, Cheryl, has also been hospitalized after she began having symptoms. 

“They put her on the ventilator. I’m just thinking like, man, this is it. I’m about to lose my mom too,” Gambrell said. 

Gambrell turned to his cousin, State Representative Karen Whitsett for help, who made sure her family was tested.

But she knows that had she not intervened, her family would have been left out in the cold to possibly die. 

“And that sickens me to have to use that title to be able to have to get my family tested,” she said.

Gambrell and his two brothers have all tested positive. 

Hear more from the family via the Twitter video clip above. 

Michigan’s governor has now launched a state task force to investigate racial negligence in the pandemic.

Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist said the task force will address “the fact that there may indeed be medical bias present when it comes to testing, as in who will even get a test, as well as in how treatment is administered.” 

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