Milwaukee’s Covid-19 spread highlights the disparities between white and black
The Wisconsin city has a reputation for being the country’s most segregated, and it’s made clear in the pandemic numbers
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Tasha Colbert of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, thinks of her 83-year-old grandmother Loraine as a pillar of the family. “My grandmother is like my mother; she raised me.” But for the past two weeks, the matriarch has been battling Covid-19 in the intensive care unit at Community Memorial hospital.
Loraine’s fight with Covid-19 started with a slight fever. But after her condition worsened, Colbert said her grandmother, who already has chronic lung disease, has been on a breathing machine, and family members are not allowed to see her in person. “To me the isolation is what can kill more than anything,” Colbert said.