As this disease has ravaged this country, it’s easy for the death toll to just be numbers. But, they were people, like you and me, and their lives had meaning.
COVID-19 and what happened to this gentleman because of the malice and incompetence of this Administration 😠
When James Freeman got sick this spring, there was so much confusion about what to do. This energetic man felt unusually tired and chest pain. His kids suspected covid, but they did not take him to the nearest hospital b/c it had a bad reputation for treating black patients.
— Robert Samuels (@newsbysamuels) October 6, 2020
His blood pressure was alarming, so doctors agreed to give him an X-ray. Only then did the note covid had set into his lungs. The hospital was low on beds, so Freeman had to sleep over night in a wheelchair, then a cot. And finally, a hospital bed, where he died alone.
— Robert Samuels (@newsbysamuels) October 6, 2020
As the covid story now coalesces around the president, I think it's important to remember how catastrophic this virus has been for American families. When Freeman-Brooks told me this story in May, there were so many stories like this that we didn't publish it. It was that common.
— Robert Samuels (@newsbysamuels) October 6, 2020
So much in this one family’s story. The hole left in their lives by this disease and this Administration’s deliberate malice in dealing with it.
https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1313867401759518721
Yeah, I think this is obvious. Trump would have very likely succumbed to this disease or ended up on a ventilator at the very least had they not loaded him up with antibodies. But his outrageous behavior is about what to expect. Vote him out before we’re all dead…
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