“ communities are not socially distancing less than other communities and if they are, it is likely because many of us are essential workers or working gig jobs to sustain our living. These jobs require more in-person interaction."

Jason Hargrove, a 50-year-old bus driver in , posted a video that went viral in which he said he thought he contracted the coronavirus after a passenger repeatedly coughed on his bus without covering her mouth. Hargrove died less than two weeks after he posted the video.

“He knew he wasn’t feeling well,” his wife, Desha Johnson-Hargrove, wrote for Time magazine.