Once Again, the Rest of America Is Ignoring Detroit

Why do so few people seem to care that the Motor City is a Covid hotspot?

Tarisai Ngangura
GEN
Published in
4 min readMay 7, 2020

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The TCF Convention Center on April 26 in downtown Detroit, Michigan. Photo: Aaron J. Thornton/Getty Images

When five-year-old Detroit resident Skylar Herbert passed away last month of complications from coronavirus, she became the youngest Covid victim in Michigan. Her death came as a bitter shock to many: Just weeks before she died, most scientists and…

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