The Coronavirus Claims Black Morticians, Leaving Holes In Communities. Since the start of the pandemic, 130 Black morticians have died from COVID-19. npr.org/2021/09/12/103… 
"Deaths of Black morticians are particularly notable bc of the prominent role they have long played in many communities. Often admired for their success in business, a number have been elected to political office, served as local power brokers & helped fund civil rights efforts"
"We were getting bombarded with COVID bodies," said Dr. Mary Gaffney, who stepped in to run her brother, Jeremiah's, funeral home in Inwood, New York after he died of the virus last May.
At least 95,000 Black Americans have died of COVID, according to an AP analysis of data from the National Center for Health Statistics, perishing at the highest rate of any racial group in the U.S.
Adjusting the figures to account for age differences shows that Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans are two to three times more likely to die of the virus than white people
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